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Thursday, March 20, 2025

Sandy Denny - Ecoute Ecoute [Listen, Listen] | jt1674

So I will sign off the day with this as per the usual staggeringly high standard, this hauntingly beautiful Sandy Denny number . . . can’t stop playing this. Ecoute, ecoute . . . . .

 Lyrics:

The young man rose his pretty face,All for to feel the salty spray.When storms are mustering, they sayI'll come and take you all away.
I am a traveler by trade,I only have what I have made.A fortune teller too they say,And I can take you all away.
Listen Listen to him do.He is the one who is for you.Listen, they sayHe'll come and take us all away.
And over there the young man stayed,Upon on the rocks so rough and grey.Watching the boy, watching the dayThinking of how he came to be.
A young man he, he is so real,And never more to go astray.He is of value now they say,And he can take himself away.
Listen Listen to him do.He is the one who is for you.Listen, they sayHe'll come and take us all away.

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