what is your favorite cover of a pre-existing poem?
could it be McKennit's cover of Highwayman, The Battlehyme of the Republic?, The Doors use of William Blake's Endlass Night, Fleetwood Mac using bits and pieces of Sylvia Plath, Johnny Cash, or the Byrds quoting the bible.
from verse to lyrics
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from verse to lyrics
The scariest folk song lyrics are "My Boy Grew up to be just like me" from cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin
Loreena McKennitt's version of 'The Lady of Shalott' (even though she doesn't sing the entire poem because it's too long).
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