- Oh Shenandoah,
- I love your daughter,
- Away, you rolling river.
- For her I'd cross,
- The raging waters,
- Away, I'm bound away,
- 'Cross the wide Missouri.
- For ten long years,
- I courted Sally,
- A-way, you rolling river
- She broke my heart,
- Here in this valley,
- A-way, we're bound away,
- 'Cross the wide Missouri.
Tom Waits, with Keith Richards, and an un-named male-voice choir, recorded "Shenandoah", for a new muliti-artist album, titled 'Son of Rogues Gallery'.
I'd love to post it here, but the album is not out until 19th february. So the best I can do, is include a link to the player on NPR.
I know some, many, most, perhaps, of my readers just can't see any beauty in Tom's gravelly voice, but I urge you to give it a chance.
Click on the link.
Sigh...
No, I know it's not a patch on your 'Best of Abba' album....
Or your 'Easy Listening Elevator Music' album.
I hear you all spluttering in denial "But I don't have an Abba album!'.
Humph!