In a message dated 3/4/2003 11:30:10 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I have often posted about The Fiddle and the Drum, > especially when it got > listed as a least favorite by list members. It IS a very strong song musically & lyrically...maybe it doesn't get its due because it has no accompanying instrumental part, but for me that adds to the power of the song. And it's also done in great style by June Tabor whose voice is a perfect match for it. Lyrically, what I find so moving about it is that in the first three verses she ends with a question, as if the conflict is avoidable, but by the final stanza she states the disappointing inevitability - "we have all come to fear the beating of your drum". Bob NP: Lynyrd Skynyrd, "The Ballad of Curtis Loew"
