
The Ecchoing Green, st. 1
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)
Interview in the first issue Rolling Stone magazine (9 November 1967) http://books.google.com/books?id=LBXGGpvaDmcC&q=%22softer+you+sing%22#v=snippet&q=%22softer%20you%20sing%22&f=false; also in Pop Chronicles, Show 48 - The British are Coming! The British are Coming!: With an emphasis on Donovan, the Bee Gees and the Who. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19823/m1/
The Ecchoing Green, st. 1
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)
“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.”
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Context: I grow old … I grow old...
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
“I have left my book,
I have left my room,
For I heard you singing
Through the gloom.”
“I can't hear a word you're saying
Tell me what are you singing
In the sun”
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
"Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own"
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
When asked how he can predict that a song will be a hit.
Scaggs, Austin (2007-05-31), "Adam Levine". Rolling Stone. (1027):36.
“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”
Variant: All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
A Better Son/Daughter
Song lyrics, The Execution of All Things (2003)