<<Aye, there's the rub..its' not Joni's song in the
sense that she penned neither words nor lyrics. >>
BUT Nuriel's point was a good one...I don't have a copy of JB's version on me, but was
Joni's version the first to add the "how do you stop a baby being born"?
I hadn't noticed its absence in the other versions I'd heard (James Brown, Hanne Boel,
Christine Sullivan), but I'd be REAL surprised if those lyrics were Joni's
concept...after all, they're not very good.
How do you stop the ripening corn? Joni grew up in farm country, and I'm sure she saw
a lot of cornfields go south due to drought, flood, etc.
Anyway, I could be wrong, and if it's so then Nuriel makes a very interesting point!
Maybe Joni was frustrated with the inability to get in touch with Kilauren at the time
and the additional lyric was just her way of expressing it.
Bob
NP: Steel Pulse, "Ravers"
