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Joan Baez - Mystic Numbers: 36. Wedding Song [HD]

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Channel: Gary Larson · 2018 · People & Blogs

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Joan Baez does a spoken rendition of 'Mystic Numbers: 36. Wedding Song', a bonus track on the CD reissue of her 1968 Vanguard album 'Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time'. The brief verses are in the video and listed below with some album notes.

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Mystic Numbers: 36. Wedding Song

Singer - Joan Baez

You shall have roses, my sweet
And a lantern to frighten the owl
And a nutmeg tree in the garden
And pears in a golden bowl

And I will buy you a bird
With feathers as bright as blood
And a door with lock and key
For our lonely house in the wood

[Lyrics transcribed by Gary Larson]

Wikipedia states:

Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time was a 1968 album of poetry spoken and sung by Joan Baez. Peter Schickele (of P. D. Q. Bach fame) did the orchestration, as he did on 1967's Joan.  The album was released during a time when many folk, pop and rock artists were experimenting with mixing their music with classical orchestration (e.g. The Beatles, Judy Collins, The Rolling Stones),

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