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Songs about love and loss

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rvwsleep said:
Based on a real life episode in Fogelberg's life.
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For those who are interested, here's the back story:
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The story behind “Same Old Lang Syne”

In what’s becoming an annual holiday tradition, we bring you the story behind one of the most beloved, if somewhat sappy New Year’s songs ever written: Originally published in 2007 by P…
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Hoops66 said:
This is my favorite folk song. Listen to his guitar all the way through.
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Good song, and the guitar is indeed excellent. But I think he may have his history wrong. The Panama Limited was an Illinois Central train that ran the same route as the City of New Orleans but on a different time schedule. The D.C. to New Orleans train is the Crescent or Crescent Limited. It runs through Birmingham, Al.
 
Purduke said:
Well I posted Ashoken Farewell with Sullivan Ballou's letter to his wife in the prior thread, so I guess I'll have to revert to Judith Durham, one of my three favorite three female vocalists, performing one of the classic love and lost songs.

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Just beautiful! Thanks for posting. I loved her and The Seekers!
 
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Bama fan said:
Good song, and the guitar is indeed excellent. But I think he may have his history wrong. The Panama Limited was an Illinois Central train that ran the same route as the City of New Orleans but on a different time schedule. The D.C. to New Orleans train is the Crescent or Crescent Limited. It runs through Birmingham, Al.
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Poetic License taken too far, I think.
 
Penned, and sung by Kris Kristofferson, but mastered by Janis. Hard to imagine that there have been a dozen different versions -- many after Janis'. Why bother. As Kristofferson has said, hard not to tear up when listening to this exquisite rendition.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

"Kristofferson said the feeling conveyed at the end of the film (Fellini's La Strada) informed “Bobby McGee” and its song structure. He changed the main details around to focus on a rich Americana-laden landscape but the intimate notions remained.

“The two-edged sword that freedom is. He was free when he left the girl, but it destroyed him. That’s where the line ‘Freedom’s just another name for nothing left to lose’ came from,” Kristofferson added."

 
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Bit of a theme twist perhaps, but I've been looking to post something from Townes, and this has a little something about it that draws me in.

Lefty just did what he had to do.

 
Say Something by A Great Big World, Christina Aguilera, Anything for You by Gloria Estefan, 2 A.M. by Alexz Johnson, I See It Now by Tracy Lawrence, Count Me In by Deana Carter, I've Never Been to Me by Charlene, Not Over You by Gavin DeGraw, Don't Try to Tell Me by Wendy & Lisa, and Almost Over You by Sheena Easton.
 
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