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Joan Baez - If I Knew [HD]+

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Channel: Gary Larson · 2017 · People & Blogs

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Joan Baez sings 'If I Knew' from her 1969 Vanguard album 'David's Album'. This song was written by Nina Dusheck (lyrics) and Pauline Marden (music). The song lyrics are in the video and listed below along with some notes on the album from Wikipedia.

Note:  This is a complete redo of the earlier video for this song with lyrics added, the images improved, and the WAV version of the song file used for best audio.

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If I Knew

Singer - Joan Baez

If I knew where the wild dove flew
I would not tell the hunter, but I would tell you
They say you're not a brave man, hardly a man at all
You would not shoot the wild things like brave men in the fall

If I knew where calypso grew
I would not tell the ladies, but I would tell you
You would not take the flower for money or for love
And harm a single petal, you would not shoot the dove

If I knew where our green love grew
I would not tell the others, but I would tell you
For though the world may call you craven, I know it is not true
And though a sword may hang between us my songs are all for you

Songwriters: Nina Dusheck, Pauline Marden

© EMI Music Publishing

[Lyrics from LyricFind]

Wikipedia states:

David's Album was a 1969 album by Joan Baez, recorded in Nashville. It was Baez' eleventh album to date. It peaked at number 36 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. Baez's then husband, David Harris, a country music fan, was about to be imprisoned for draft resistance, and she recorded the album as a gift to him. It was recorded during the same sessions as Baez's previous release of Bob Dylan songs, Any Day Now. The cover sketch is a drawing of David Harris by Joan Baez. 

In his Allmusic review, music critic Bruce Eder wrote of the album "the singing and playing still hold up. Baez also sets aside some of her occasional stridency here, in favor of a more relaxed performance that shows her in the most engaging manner of her career... David's Album has transcended its origins in part because of the sheer range of material on it... David Harris is long since out of jail, and he and Baez parted, but it's still an excellent album."

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