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Like a leaf is to a tree, so fine.
Ah all the good times we had, I sang love songs so glad
Always smiling, never sad, so fine.
[Chorus]
As we walk down the country lanes, I'll be singing a song,
Hear me calling your name.
Hear the wind within the trees, Telling Mother Nature 'bout you and me.
Well if the sun shines so bright, Or on our way it's darkest night
The road we choose is always right, so fine.
Ah can your love be so strong When so many loves go wrong
Will our love go on and on...
[Chorus]
My, my la de la come on now it ain't too far,
Tell your friends all around the world,
Ain't no companion like a blue eyed merle.
Come on now well let me tell you,
What you're missing, missing, 'round them brick walls.
So of one thing I am sure, It's a friendship so pure,
Angels singing all around my door, so fine.
Yeah, ain't but one thing to do Spend my natural life with you,
You're the finest dog I knew, so fine.
When you're old and your eyes are dim, There ain't no old Shep gonna happen again,
We'll still go walking down country lanes, I'll sing the same old songs,
Hear me call your name.
Doesn't matter. Never would have heard of Bert Jansch or Davey Graham if it wasn't for Jimmy Page.
Very true. I agree!
PAGE STOLE THIS! This was Bert Jansch's.
Breaks my heart to have realized it but Page was one of the worst plagiarists of our times. Several egregious examples stand out: Bert Jansch's Black Water Side was ripped off completely when Page did Black Mountain Side and again when his arrangement of The Waggoners Lad was stolen for Brony Aur Stomp. Davey Grahams She Moved Through The Fair was turned into White Summer and Page had the balls to confabulate a story that he "learned Eastern Music styles while backpacking through India" which was precisely how Graham went on to innovate the DADGAD sitar style tuning Page ripped off. Jake Holme's Dazed and Confused was note for note theft. Breeden's lovely arrangement of the folk ballad Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, the Willie Dixon, the Howling Wolf, all of it stolen. It is clear that Page and his lawyers took the "fuck em, let em sue us" approach to doing business. The chickens are coming home to roost. Read this piece and go to the sources. It's an eye opener. https://alanwalkerart.com/wp/?tag=bert-jansch
Here is the source material: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Q-XG16TN0
Doesn't matter. Never would have heard of Bert Jansch or Davey Graham if it wasn't for Jimmy Page.
I can just imagine "What do you mean he's not singing 'ain't no companion like a blue eyed girl'?!"
Right?!?!? I was supposed to be his blue eyed "girl!" Sigh . . .
OK. Mind BLOWN! Strunz & Farah - one of my faves from way back, followed by Little Feat - one of my all time fave bands, followed by Zep. Really. I'm losing it.
Thank you thank you thank you!
Strunz &Farah are on here?? I uploaded one of their tunes a couple of years ago and it was INSTANTLY rejected!
I was/am baffled.
Instant foot tapping...
Yes!
OK. Mind BLOWN! Strunz & Farah - one of my faves from way back, followed by Little Feat - one of my all time fave bands, followed by Zep. Really. I'm losing it.
Thank you thank you thank you!
Red-eyed Robert Plant with his blue-eyed Merle...
FIFY!
I can just imagine "What do you mean he's not singing 'ain't no companion like a blue eyed girl'?!"
Girl was exactly what I was hearing. Maybe I need to go read the lyrics to some more Zep songs.
Forty-some years later, I finally come to the realization that Plant was singing about his dog!!! I guess I never paid close attention to the lyrics. I don't know if it is Plant, or me, but a lot of his words just sound like gibberish to me. Not until I hear a live version or a cover version do I realize what they lyric actually is.
It is a fun song either in gibberish or knowing the lyric...
I can just imagine "What do you mean he's not singing 'ain't no companion like a blue eyed girl'?!"
Well, it's been 13 years since I made this comment. At least BillG is consistent. But, I have to admit that I don't hate this song as much as I used to. In fact, I am beginning to like it again. You win, Bill.
Breaks my heart to have realized it but Page was one of the worst plagiarists of our times. Several egregious examples stand out: Bert Jansch's Black Water Side was ripped off completely when Page did Black Mountain Side and again when his arrangement of The Waggoners Lad was stolen for Brony Aur Stomp. Davey Grahams She Moved Through The Fair was turned into White Summer and Page had the balls to confabulate a story that he "learned Eastern Music styles while backpacking through India" which was precisely how Graham went on to innovate the DADGAD sitar style tuning Page ripped off. Jake Holme's Dazed and Confused was note for note theft. Breeden's lovely arrangement of the folk ballad Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, the Willie Dixon, the Howling Wolf, all of it stolen. It is clear that Page and his lawyers took the "fuck em, let em sue us" approach to doing business. The chickens are coming home to roost. Read this piece and go to the sources. It's an eye opener. https://alanwalkerart.com/wp/?tag=bert-jansch
Here is the source material: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Q-XG16TN0
OMG.... 2 guitar licks sound the same! Call out the dogs and get the tar and feathers ready. This must be blatant plagiarism. Conspiracies abound. It certainly has nothing to do with that fact that there are only so many strings, frets, and chords available on a guitar. Or that fact that all music is derivative in some way or another. OR the fact that rock and roll, as a form, was derived from the work of the aforementioned Blues legends.
Maybe you should spend less time grinding axes (and trying to sound like an authority) and more on just enjoying the music. That might be wise.
Forty-some years later, I finally come to the realization that Plant was singing about his dog!!! I guess I never paid close attention to the lyrics. I don't know if it is Plant, or me, but a lot of his words just sound like gibberish to me. Not until I hear a live version or a cover version do I realize what they lyric actually is.
It is a fun song either in gibberish or knowing the lyric...
Breaks my heart to have realized it but Page was one of the worst plagiarists of our times. Several egregious examples stand out: Bert Jansch's Black Water Side was ripped off completely when Page did Black Mountain Side and again when his arrangement of The Waggoners Lad was stolen for Brony Aur Stomp. Davey Grahams She Moved Through The Fair was turned into White Summer and Page had the balls to confabulate a story that he "learned Eastern Music styles while backpacking through India" which was precisely how Graham went on to innovate the DADGAD sitar style tuning Page ripped off. Jake Holme's Dazed and Confused was note for note theft. Breeden's lovely arrangement of the folk ballad Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, the Willie Dixon, the Howling Wolf, all of it stolen. It is clear that Page and his lawyers took the "fuck em, let em sue us" approach to doing business. The chickens are coming home to roost. Read this piece and go to the sources. It's an eye opener. https://alanwalkerart.com/wp/?tag=bert-jansch
Here is the source material: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Q-XG16TN0
Sorry to say both of my boys have passed on since I posted this. A good dog's life burns brightly, but much too short.
why Hannio, looks like you shucked your jeans and kicked off your shoes to stomp with gusto : )
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My teenage son had changed into shorts and chucked his jeans and socks downstairs to be washed right before I took the picture.
Sorry to say both of my boys have passed on since I posted this. A good dog's life burns brightly, but much too short.
why Hannio, looks like you shucked your jeans and kicked off your shoes to stomp with gusto : )
From Wiki:
The song is named after Bron-Yr-Aur, a house in Gwynedd, Wales, where the members of Led Zeppelin retreated in 1970 to write much of Led Zeppelin III after having completed a gruelling concert tour of North America. Bron-Yr-Aur means "golden breast" or "breast of gold" in Welsh, as in a hillside of gold. Its pronunciation is. The cottage had no electricity or running water, but the change of scenery provided inspiration for many of the songs on the album, including "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp."
The song's title was misspelled on the album cover during initial printing; it should read "Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp." This error can be contrasted to another Led Zeppelin track, "Bron-Yr-Aur", a two-minute instrumental featured on their later album Physical Graffiti, which was spelled correctly. When the song appeared on the 2003 DVD, it was spelled correctly both on the back cover of the set and the DVD's menu, although without the hyphens ("Bron Yr Aur Stomp"), and on the live album How the West Was Won it was spelled "Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp".
Well, maybe a song about a boat, but maybe not.
Now a song about a boat and a pony. then you have something.
Later, Mom says, "Honey, why do I keep finding little — are those sesame seeds down in the cracks of the furniture?"
You made me remember that time i told my mom that the piece of hash she found in my pocket was a "octane booster" for my beloved Honda CBX 125cc. :-0
It is also good for the scrotum... love this song... love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll...
Sounds like summit Lazarus (Romeo) would say, back in the day that Cyenara was around...
One of my alltime faves....
leonard cohen would not listen to this.
I love the way this song captures the pure joy of dogginess.
Love your post date...New Year 's Eve on a boat!! AWESOME!
I've always spent New Year's Eve freezing my ass off, California Dreamin'!
It is also good for the scrotum... love this song... love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll...
Um, Jack White wasn't born when this song was released, let alone when it was written.
Later, Mom says, "Honey, why do I keep finding little — are those sesame seeds down in the cracks of the furniture?"
Love the album, funny, I had a similar problem with those crazy sesame seeds.
Well, maybe a song about a boat, but maybe not.
Later, Mom says, "Honey, why do I keep finding little — are those sesame seeds down in the cracks of the furniture?"
A bad hiding place for that sesame seeds it was, my friend! Nice song from LZ btw.
Does take a weird turn half way through, doesn't it?
Nice! I hit play and it just happened to get in sync and go along really well with the beat for most of the clip. Heh.
Oh, and . . . one of my (many) all time favorite Zep songs!
clickfaster wrote:
BRAVO
yes it is. but it's also great to remember.
Later, Mom says, "Honey, why do I keep finding little — are those sesame seeds down in the cracks of the furniture?"
And I can't imagine life without a blue-eyed Merle at my side (has been the case for the last 21 years, thank you Crystal, Salsa, and Dee.)
Hannio wrote:
Sorry to say both of my boys have passed on since I posted this. A good dog's life burns brightly, but much too short.
My favorite also!
From II through Physical Graffiti it's pretty much impossible to say which one is the "best", but Damn, this one's gotta be in the running!
Not sure you can count Zep I out either....
:)
Bron-y-aur cottage where many Zep classics were written.
From II through Physical Graffiti it's pretty much impossible to say which one is the "best", but Damn, this one's gotta be in the running!
It's about Strider, Robert's blue-eyed merle. Similar breed I think. "you're the finest dog I ever knew"
Strider, cool. Australian Shepard's come in 4 flavors, blue merle is one, they typically have at least one blue eye, commonly called a ghost eye. Ours is named Sedona! :)
I always thought they were referring to an Australian Shepperd
It's about Strider, Robert's blue-eyed merle. Similar breed I think. "you're the finest dog I ever knew"
"There ain't no companion like a blue-eyed merle" — Indeed!
I always thought they were referring to an Australian Shepperd
So true.
Sorry to say both of my boys have passed on since I posted this. A good dog's life burns brightly, but much too short.
good pick!
From Wikipedia:
"The song is named after Bron-Yr-Aur, a house in Gwynedd, Wales, where the members of Led Zeppelin retreated in 1970 to write much of Led Zeppelin III."
"There ain't no companion like a blue-eyed merle" — Indeed!
Always makes me smile, even on a Monday!
This song is good for the ears...
Now, how did I know you were going to say that?
This song is good for the ears...
Yup an' good for heart 'n' soul too!
Zep were in Baghdad when the Stripes were in dad's bag.
We have a winner!
It's comments like these that necessitate a combo of the & emoticons
It is pretty amazing how much Jack can sound like Robert in certain songs, seemingly without trying. Love them both!