Elizabeth Cotten’s “Freight Train” is just what I needed this evening.
(h/t to Jeff Guntzel)
We haven’t posted a Tuesday evening melody in several weeks. And this ditty couldn’t be a more fitting reentry.
Tuesday Evening Melody: “I Have Never Loved Someone” by My Brightest Diamond
by Pádraig Ó Tuama, guest contributor
As a kind, five-minute gift to yourself, listen to and watch the song by My Brightest Diamond. It has beautiful lyrics and is performed deliciously from a set recorded in Berlin this year.
I have never loved someone the way I love you
I have never seen a smile like yours
And if you grow to be a king or clown or pauper
I will say you are my favorite one in town
I have never held a hand so soft and sacred
When I hear your laugh I know heaven’s key
And when I grow to be a poppy in the graveyard
I will send you all my love upon the breeze
And if the breeze won’t blow your way, I will be the sun
And if the sun won’t shine your way, I will be the rain
And if the rain won’t wash away all your aches and pains
I will find some other way to tell you you’re okay
Pádraig Ó Tuama, a native of Cork, works in chaplaincy and peacework in Belfast, Northern Ireland. You can read more of his writing at In the Shelter and in his new book of poetry coming out in 2012.
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