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Joan Baez - All In Green Went My Love Riding (Lyrics) [HD]

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Channel: Gary Larson · 2018 · People & Blogs

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Joan Baez sings 'All In Green Went My Love Riding'. This song from a poem written by American poet E. E. Cummings was first on her 1968 Vanguard album 'Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time'. The song lyrics are in the video and listed below along with some notes about Cummings.

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All In Green Went My Love Riding

Singer - Joan Baez

 All in green went my love riding
 On a great horse of gold into the silver dawn

 Four lean hounds crouched low and smiling
 The merry deer ran before

 Fleeter be they than dappled dreams
 The sweet swift deer, the red rare deer

 Four red roebuck at a white water
 The cruel bugle sang before

 Horn at hip went my love riding
 Riding the echo down in the silver dawn

 Four lean hounds crouched low and smiling
 The level meadows ran before

 Softer be they than slippered sleep
 The lean lithe deer, the fleet flown deer

 Four fleet does at a gold valley
 The famished arrow sang before

 Bow at belt went my love riding
 Riding the mountain down into the silver dawn

 Four lean hounds crouched low and smiling
 The sheer peaks ran before

 Paler be they than daunting death
 The sleek slim deer, the tall tense deer

 Four tall stags at a green mountain
 The lucky hunter sang before

 All in green went my love riding
 On a great horse of gold into the silver dawn

 Four lean hounds crouched low and smiling
 My heart fell dead before

Songwriter: E. E. Cummings

[Lyrics from azlyrics.com]

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 RollingnStones).

Edward Estlin "E. E." Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), often styled as e e cummings, as he sometimes signed his name, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He wrote approximately 2900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays,  and several essays.

Edward Estlin Cummings was born on October 14, 1894, in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Edward Cummings and the former Rebecca Haswell Clarke, a well-known Unitarian couple in the city. His father was a professor at Harvard University and later became nationally known as the minister of South Congregational Church in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother, who loved to spend time with her children, played games with Cummings and his sister, Elizabeth. From an early age, Cummings' parents supported his creative gifts. Cummings wrote poems and also drew as a child, and he often played outdoors with the many other children who lived in his neighborhood. He grew up in the company of such family friends as the philosophers William James and Josiah Royce.

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