In my journey through life, Stan Rogers somehow evaded my radar till now. His voice, instrumentals, and the spirit infusing his work all remind me of the American folk artist John McCutcheon.
My boyfriend introduced me to Stan Rogers and I've never looked back. He revealed this today as his choice for our first dance at our wedding and although this has always been one of my favourites of Stan's, today I really truly listened to the lyrics and realised what an amazing love song this is, a husband who still sees his wife as the beautiful woman he married despite her age. I would happily have this as our first dance. Especially as his favourite line is “she looked up in that weathered face that loves hers line for line” such an undervalued love song!
How exceptional is a songwriter who can work so very relevant a reference to Rodin's "Belle Heaulmiere" into a love song to a farmer's wife? You left us too soon, Mr. Rogers. We hoped to receive so much more from you in the coming years. I know that is selfish of me, but I'm like that sometimes. Salute.
I was fortunate enough to see Stan at Toronto's Groaning Board. My sister was due to see him the day he was killed - I had to break the news to her. There aren't many songs that make me tear up, but this one still does.
I began listening to this song in my mid-twenties and loved it then. Now in my early 50's this song speaks to me louder and deeper than ever. There is a young, beautiful, vivacious girl inside every Woman. We trade beauty for wisdom and accepting that gracefully is a challenge...yet is both a privilege and a blessing. Thank You for the melodic reminder Stan. Grateful that your melodies and ballads live on...
I was introduced to Stan's music at a very young age, courtesy of my father. He used to play "The Field Behind the Plow" and sing me to sleep when I was a baby. This past Christmas he got me all of Stan's albums in a remastered box set, which included One Warm Line. We watched it together Christmas Day. Easily a favorite memory, amongst many others.
For those of us with the wisdom and blessedness to have found true indelible love, that truest form of beauty never fades but becomes all the greater with time.
I was in the Metropolitan Museum of Art last week, in a gallery of Rodin sculptures. I looked down, and there was Rodin's "la belle Heaulmière". An old woman, nude, wrinkled, collapsed almost, head down. And of course I immediately began to sing this song, and I understood more fully what Stan was referring too in the reference. A perfect lyric, amongst a thousand others he produced. Such a terrible loss, and a brilliant musical legacy.
+newjob serch Thank you :) What a beautiful commemoration for a person whose beauty lives on and will continue to do so.Though I am not Canadian born, Stan is part of my heart ,my life, my joy. I grew up on his music :)
I sing this song at work and always tear up and my voice cracks. Stan rogers is a true Canadian folk legend. I wonder,if he were alive today,what great songs wold he have made.
My beautiful wife of 20 years is losing a very nasty battle with cancer. She doesn't like me to look at her anymore, bald and emaciated as she is. If she could only see herself through my eyes she would know that she's the most beautiful woman in the world and always will be for me. This song says that better than I could ever hope to. I wish that she could see herself reflected in my eyes. She would have no doubts just how beautiful she is.
I don't know if you will read this but I just read this and bawled my eyes out. I truly hope you had the best possible time with your wife. You clearly have a wonderful soul, take heed to that in your grief.
@@melonskall Thank you very much. My wonderful wife passed 4 years ago now and I still miss her every day. She was an amazing woman and is still reflected in my mind's eye as the perfect girl I married almost a quarter of a century ago. Thank you very much for your kind words!
One of my favourite songs to perform - a sombre song with a happy twist at the end. I bought his song book and was stunned by the poetry in his songwriting. Absolutely amazing. A great loss. RIP Stan and many thanks for your music.
Wow - this is some song, and what a voice ! What a pity Stan died so young, Canada is so fortunate in having such stellar musical artistes such as Stan, Gordon Lightfoot, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and one of my favourites - Pagliaro.
I only discovered this Stan song when Nathan gave a concert of his dad's songs in our town last year, If I'd heard it before it hadn't registered but boy did it ever register that night! He could have written about me, or any number of the women I know. Like you, Patti, I wish my mirror would tell me lies -- instead of reflecting my mother each time I look in it.
back in the mid 80s, my Scots friend / musician Ian Bruce introduced me to Stans powerful music and later that decade, on a canoeing trip on the Canadian border , my great pal Jorma Kaukonen and I were REALLY taken by hearing "Northwest Passage" out of Ely, MN. "End of the Road" radio thanks to Charles Kuralt.. Stan passing so early was a terrible loss for the world!!
How can it be that the vast majority of the world does not know or care about this song. It is simply one of the most beautiful and compelling songs ever written and performed. Is it just the very few who get this? I honestly just don't understand.
***** Not drunk when I wrote this comment. It is all opinion but this song absolutely burns in my soul. Maybe someday it will hit you more like it hit's me. Sometimes there are songs I have listened to for years that I think are just OK and then all of a sudden I hear them differently.
I love listening to and singing along with Stan's songs, but have yet to make it through to the end of this one without choking up. Guess I'm not the curmudgeon I pretend to be.
***** NO! This Yankee Doodle Dandy who always mists up at 'MacDonnell on the Heights', even though your birds took the wrong side, knows a pissant family squabble when he sees it. Come to Frisko and I'll buy you a drink. Or 30.
Stan Rogers was an astonishing musical poet. This song is one of his greatest. And it is even more moving 50 years after I first heard it. What a gift he left the world.
I'm sitting here at my computer, crying--my mirror tells those same lies.... Thank you, Stan. (And anyone who says a man can't understand how a woman feels, hasn't heard this song!)
He was neither a woman, nor a farmer, nor a fisher, nor a sailor, nor most any of the people he narrated in his beautiful poetry... yet he had such an incredible way of _understanding_ people and their inner and outer struggles. He truly put the _folk_ in folk music, giving voice to the people and interpreting the anguished cries which the downtrodden could not make for themselves. I can only wonder what songs he would have written had he lived a long life... but what he gave us is pure treasure.
Everytime I hear this song, I tear up thinking of my mother. The love between the husband and wife in this song describes, perfectly, how much my mother and father loved each other. I hope to love someone tha much someday.
I do, too. I just started playing the cassette tape of Stan's "Northwest Passage" and this song gets me every time, this and "Field Behind the Plow", "Idiot" and others tell real human stories and touch your soul deeply.
The most incredible love song I have ever heard in my humble opinion it is a blessing to hear a song that speaks of a love unaffected by outward appearances or time............Simply beautiful
You've heard his "Forty-Five Years" as well, I hope? That's very high on my list of favorite love songs. You can listen to it here: ruclips.net/video/ZrGDoDloD1M/видео.html.
" Believe me if all those endearing young charms which I gaze on so fondly today. Were to fade by tomorrow and fleet in my eyes, like fairy gifts fading aways. Thou would still be adored as this moment though art. Let they lovliness fade as it will. And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart shall entwine itself verdantly still. It is not while beauty and youth are thine own and thy cheek unprofaned by a tear, that the fervor and faith of a soul can be known, to which time can...
A beautiful strong voice with amazing ability to express kindness and gentle cadence. Saw him at the Serbian Hall in 1979-80 in Sudbury - he sang some great British songs he had heard when he was there a year(?) before. Tragic his life was cut so short.
The accounts of his death give the impression that he died while helping to rescue others off the plane. He was a musical genius and we certainly lost him much too young.
Stan was very well known in the folk music circles. I only heard him on a local radio station that played folk often or a NPR weekend show that featured Celtic music. My mom actually got our family turned on to him when she visited her family in Nova Scotia and came home armed with all his albums. The band toured New England extensively and we saw him several times...Stan was bigger than life.
I worked in a music club in the early 80's and volunteered at a major Canadian Folk Festival where he played nearly every year. So I knew him, spent time with him and Garnet when they were in town. We were not best friends or even close friends but I would say there was some kind of friendship there. He was a big (6'4"), strong, earthy guy with a booming laugh, a lightning quick wit, an incorrigible flirt (which meant nothing as he was married and as far as I know, devoted to his wife). I say all this because there is a tendency to cult "St. Stan". He was very human. Yet, think. He was probably in his late 20's when he wrote this. How did this big earthy folk singer and musician from eastern Canada so completely put himself into the soul of middle aged prairie housewife? The detail...7 kids, " drips Carnations from the can", last year's Easter dress. My husband, who is more of the traditional music bent (and came across me with tears streaming down my while I listened to this yesterday) says that he was a genius. It is not a word that he throws around lightly, and certainly not with music. The combination of melody, the weaving of words and the imbuing of a soul into a character in a 5 minute song is true genius. We can only appreciate what he has left behind but, oh, I cannot but imagine what else he might have created.
Maryann Nolan , there are men who feel as much or more than others, women included, and are not afraid to feel it. They will not be found in a bar or a kiss
Claudia, it is also one of the greatest poems for a young couple just starting out their lives together. What better promise could a young man make to his bride? If he is a real man, that promise will be kept.
Thomas Moore's wife, Bessie had developed a terrible skin disease which had robbed her of her beauty. She was afraid that he would leave her. He never did. Instead he wrote this poem to her. Some accounts say that she had confined herself to their home and would no longer venture out, but her husband's words gave her the courage to venture out into the world again. I give to you now a real man's idea of love. I only wish I had written these words.
Dear Canada, make more men like him, please? Also, if you could give this towering legend of a man the "Walk the Line" treatment, give him a biography movie, I would love you even more than I do already.
A story teller, and artist the likes of Stan Rogers comes along about once a generation.... Ladies and gentlemen, Canada is proud to present.... Gord Downie.
but make thee more dear. For the heart that hath truly loved never forgets, but it truly loves on to the close. As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets, the same look that she gave when he rose.
Was cleaning up some old posts and came across this one. Ceb, thanks for your comment " I think I'm in love ". Heh, not sure if you meant me or Thomas Moore, but I know which I prefer, lol. Anyway, I hope you don't mind me spamming your site a little by posting Thomas' entire poem to his wife here. It just goes so much in line with Stan's song and some may not be familiar with it. I also think "Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms" is the greatest poem/song ever for a wedding.
Please take time to look at the Belle Heaulmiere and the quote from Robert A. Heinlein's "Stranger in a strange Land" in which his character, Jubal Harshaw, describes how he interprets the art. Since I can't seem to post a link, google the words Heinlein and Rodin. It is definitely worth a look!
“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them.” - Robert Heinlein
Well said, theshadow1932. Also remember the words of Thomas Moore to his wife Bessie who had developed a terrible skin disease which robbed her of her beauty. " Believe me if all those endearing young charms, which I gaze on so fondly today, were to fade by tomorrow and fleet in my eyes like fairy gifts fading away. Thou would still be adored as this moment thou art, let they lovliness fade as it will. And around the dear ruin each beat of my heart shall entwine itself verdently still.
@DJDAGGER11 Thank you for the comment. I agree. Stan was an incredible songwriter and one of the loveliest singers ever. All of his songs show his great heart. C.
Personally my favourite song by Stan. Amazing talent. Amazing voice. Amazing insight to the female psyche. How could he possibly have know the fairer sex so well? I wish my mirror told me "Lies"....
@bumerry I suspect that if your husband is the kind of man who knew the words to the song that he is also the type of man who will live by them. I wish you both a long and happy life together.
@Razhumykin I quite agree, Raz. Though in retrospect I tend to think that the Belle Heaulmiere was more likely what inspired him to write the song. Without prior knowledge of it's existance and it's meaning he would, of course, never thought to search for the referance.
Whoops! My comment regarding the designated lass was intended as a humorous slant on the literal lyrics. Sorry it missed the mark. Geez , gang, let's all lighten up here. Regards, Erstaz Jerry Seinfeld
a commenter compared the sculpture to a poem by Villon: (translated in part): .......And I see myself so changed. Poor desiccated thin, shriveled, I nearly go mad! What has happened to my smooth brow, My blond hair... . My slender shoulders,----
He makes a reference to a "Ronin's Bell on Air?" (understandably it is likely a different language reference). I cannot find any reference to anything like this and I'm hoping someone here understands the reference.
In my journey through life, Stan Rogers somehow evaded my radar till now. His voice, instrumentals, and the spirit infusing his work all remind me of the American folk artist John McCutcheon.
My boyfriend introduced me to Stan Rogers and I've never looked back. He revealed this today as his choice for our first dance at our wedding and although this has always been one of my favourites of Stan's, today I really truly listened to the lyrics and realised what an amazing love song this is, a husband who still sees his wife as the beautiful woman he married despite her age. I would happily have this as our first dance. Especially as his favourite line is “she looked up in that weathered face that loves hers line for line” such an undervalued love song!
Update 6 years later - we got married 9 days ago and had our first dance to this song. It was beautiful and he cried ❤
How exceptional is a songwriter who can work so very relevant a reference to Rodin's "Belle Heaulmiere" into a love song to a farmer's wife? You left us too soon, Mr. Rogers. We hoped to receive so much more from you in the coming years. I know that is selfish of me, but I'm like that sometimes. Salute.
I was fortunate enough to see Stan at Toronto's Groaning Board. My sister was due to see him the day he was killed - I had to break the news to her. There aren't many songs that make me tear up, but this one still does.
I began listening to this song in my mid-twenties and loved it then. Now in my early 50's this song speaks to me louder and deeper than ever. There is a young, beautiful, vivacious girl inside every Woman. We trade beauty for wisdom and accepting that gracefully is a challenge...yet is both a privilege and a blessing. Thank You for the melodic reminder Stan. Grateful that your melodies and ballads live on...
27. Stan Roger's is one of my favorites. His legacy lives on. Got a kid on the way too. Theyll be raised listening to his voice as well.
I was introduced to Stan's music at a very young age, courtesy of my father. He used to play "The Field Behind the Plow" and sing me to sleep when I was a baby. This past Christmas he got me all of Stan's albums in a remastered box set, which included One Warm Line. We watched it together Christmas Day. Easily a favorite memory, amongst many others.
The album this song is on was a very frequent choice at my house growing up! Rest assured that my future children will hear his gorgeous voice too.
For those of us with the wisdom and blessedness to have found true indelible love, that truest form of beauty never fades but becomes all the greater with time.
I was in the Metropolitan Museum of Art last week, in a gallery of Rodin sculptures. I looked down, and there was Rodin's "la belle Heaulmière". An old woman, nude, wrinkled, collapsed almost, head down. And of course I immediately began to sing this song, and I understood more fully what Stan was referring too in the reference. A perfect lyric, amongst a thousand others he produced. Such a terrible loss, and a brilliant musical legacy.
+newjob serch Thank you :) What a beautiful commemoration for a person whose beauty lives on and will continue to do so.Though I am not Canadian born, Stan is part of my heart ,my life, my joy. I grew up on his music :)
I sing this song at work and always tear up and my voice cracks. Stan rogers is a true Canadian folk legend. I wonder,if he were alive today,what great songs wold he have made.
My beautiful wife of 20 years is losing a very nasty battle with cancer. She doesn't like me to look at her anymore, bald and emaciated as she is. If she could only see herself through my eyes she would know that she's the most beautiful woman in the world and always will be for me. This song says that better than I could ever hope to. I wish that she could see herself reflected in my eyes. She would have no doubts just how beautiful she is.
I don't know if you will read this but I just read this and bawled my eyes out. I truly hope you had the best possible time with your wife. You clearly have a wonderful soul, take heed to that in your grief.
@@melonskall Thank you very much. My wonderful wife passed 4 years ago now and I still miss her every day. She was an amazing woman and is still reflected in my mind's eye as the perfect girl I married almost a quarter of a century ago. Thank you very much for your kind words!
One of my favourite songs to perform - a sombre song with a happy twist at the end. I bought his song book and was stunned by the poetry in his songwriting. Absolutely amazing. A great loss. RIP Stan and many thanks for your music.
Wow - this is some song, and what a voice ! What a pity Stan died so young, Canada is so fortunate in having such stellar musical artistes such as Stan, Gordon Lightfoot, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and one of my favourites - Pagliaro.
One of the most beautiful Love songs I have ever heard.True love will never age.God Bless Stan Rodgers.
Is this the face that won for her the man, whose amazed and clumsy fingers put that ring upon her hand. Omg
I only discovered this Stan song when Nathan gave a concert of his dad's songs in our town last year, If I'd heard it before it hadn't registered but boy did it ever register that night! He could have written about me, or any number of the women I know. Like you, Patti, I wish my mirror would tell me lies -- instead of reflecting my mother each time I look in it.
back in the mid 80s, my Scots friend / musician Ian Bruce introduced me to Stans powerful music and later that decade, on a canoeing trip on the Canadian border , my great pal Jorma Kaukonen and I were REALLY taken by hearing "Northwest Passage" out of Ely, MN. "End of the Road" radio thanks to Charles Kuralt.. Stan passing so early was a terrible loss for the world!!
How can it be that the vast majority of the world does not know or care about this song. It is simply one of the most beautiful and compelling songs ever written and performed. Is it just the very few who get this? I honestly just don't understand.
*****
Not drunk when I wrote this comment. It is all opinion but this song absolutely burns in my soul. Maybe someday it will hit you more like it hit's me. Sometimes there are songs I have listened to for years that I think are just OK and then all of a sudden I hear them differently.
*****
One more thing. I am American not Canuck but was living in Minnesota when I discovered Stan's music so close enough.
I love listening to and singing along with Stan's songs, but have yet to make it through to the end of this one without choking up. Guess I'm not the curmudgeon I pretend to be.
murraystewartj
You are simply among the people who get it.
***** NO! This Yankee Doodle Dandy who always mists up at 'MacDonnell on the Heights', even though your birds took the wrong side, knows a pissant family squabble when he sees it. Come to Frisko and I'll buy you a drink. Or 30.
Stan Rogers was an astonishing musical poet. This song is one of his greatest. And it is even more moving 50 years after I first heard it. What a gift he left the world.
My grandparents have been married for 55 years. This reminds me of them. Simply beautiful.
I have no idea why I'm bawling but I am!
Love the details in this song, drips carnation from the can and the true love of live long mate
I'm sitting here at my computer, crying--my mirror tells those same lies....
Thank you, Stan. (And anyone who says a man can't understand how a woman feels, hasn't heard this song!)
He was neither a woman, nor a farmer, nor a fisher, nor a sailor, nor most any of the people he narrated in his beautiful poetry... yet he had such an incredible way of _understanding_ people and their inner and outer struggles. He truly put the _folk_ in folk music, giving voice to the people and interpreting the anguished cries which the downtrodden could not make for themselves.
I can only wonder what songs he would have written had he lived a long life... but what he gave us is pure treasure.
Everytime I hear this song, I tear up thinking of my mother. The love between the husband and wife in this song describes, perfectly, how much my mother and father loved each other. I hope to love someone tha much someday.
I was lucky to see Stan at the Groaning Board coffee house in Toronto back in the early 80'. I will never forget that show. RIP Stan.
Some songs touch your heart and others touch your soul. RIP Stan.
+LD King This song is so profound and tender and human... I just love it more each time I hear it :)
His songs do both.
I do, too. I just started playing the cassette tape of Stan's "Northwest Passage" and this song gets me every time, this and "Field Behind the Plow", "Idiot" and others tell real human stories and touch your soul deeply.
L King what a great way to describe it. This one goes way deeper than the heart.
The most incredible love song I have ever heard in my humble opinion it is a blessing to hear a song that speaks of a love unaffected by outward appearances or time............Simply beautiful
You've heard his "Forty-Five Years" as well, I hope? That's very high on my list of favorite love songs. You can listen to it here: ruclips.net/video/ZrGDoDloD1M/видео.html.
+Christina Talbott-Clark The Two best LOVE SONGS :)
" Believe me if all those endearing young charms which I gaze on so fondly today.
Were to fade by tomorrow and fleet in my eyes, like fairy gifts fading aways.
Thou would still be adored as this moment though art.
Let they lovliness fade as it will.
And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart shall entwine itself verdantly still.
It is not while beauty and youth are thine own and thy cheek unprofaned by a tear, that the fervor and faith of a soul can be known, to which time can...
My personal favourite Stan Rogers song
A beautiful strong voice with amazing ability to express kindness and gentle cadence. Saw him at the Serbian Hall in 1979-80 in Sudbury - he sang some great British songs he had heard when he was there a year(?) before. Tragic his life was cut so short.
This is one of the most romantic, greatest love songs, of all time. Right up there with Always on My Mind.
We all miss him. He left us way too young & gifted.
might be the most beautiful song I've ever heard.
The accounts of his death give the impression that he died while helping to rescue others off the plane. He was a musical genius and we certainly lost him much too young.
So beautiful, takes me into time to feel that bitter yet happiness and a past behind to cherish..
One of the most romantic songs ever written
It's really beautiful. I love him all the way.
It's crazy this is live
'Always brings me to tears, even stone sober.
TheOneTrueKaliban thank you for this my dear friend what a beautiful gift
TOCL
ns petals
My great pleasure! :)
+ns petals ;-D Winkin' at'cha!
TheOneTrueKaliban Stan Rodgers song riding night guard
This is such a beautiful song but so sad. The lyrics are deep and wonderful. I love it.
Poetry in motion! so beautiful,what a performer!
Stan was very well known in the folk music circles. I only heard him on a local radio station that played folk often or a NPR weekend show that featured Celtic music. My mom actually got our family turned on to him when she visited her family in Nova Scotia and came home armed with all his albums. The band toured New England extensively and we saw him several times...Stan was bigger than life.
Never fails to make me cry.
such a poet, such a wonderful way of interpretation...This is Beauty's finish, like Rodin's Belle Lumiere!!
Yes, such a talented singer/songwriter. Great, great lyrics - draws you in and you just want to listen to every word. Lyrics of great impact.
la belle heaulmière
Not Bella Lumiere... it is the Old Courtesan... part of Gates of Hell statuary.
A poet, exactly. Not just a great songwriter.
Canada's great poet/troubadour - we miss you so much, Stan.
i think our mirrors only tell lies if we let them..he talks about the beauty in everyone,inner beauty is so much stronger!
Amazing and moving.. Never get tired of this.
You have an insight and a sensitivity that I believe one day will bring you to the love you seek.
Stan does my international friends in too. International talent. A gift from the miracle of mutation and evolution.
I worked in a music club in the early 80's and volunteered at a major Canadian Folk Festival where he played nearly every year. So I knew him, spent time with him and Garnet when they were in town. We were not best friends or even close friends but I would say there was some kind of friendship there. He was a big (6'4"), strong, earthy guy with a booming laugh, a lightning quick wit, an incorrigible flirt (which meant nothing as he was married and as far as I know, devoted to his wife). I say all this because there is a tendency to cult "St. Stan". He was very human. Yet, think. He was probably in his late 20's when he wrote this. How did this big earthy folk singer and musician from eastern Canada so completely put himself into the soul of middle aged prairie housewife? The detail...7 kids, " drips Carnations from the can", last year's Easter dress. My husband, who is more of the traditional music bent (and came across me with tears streaming down my while I listened to this yesterday) says that he was a genius. It is not a word that he throws around lightly, and certainly not with music. The combination of melody, the weaving of words and the imbuing of a soul into a character in a 5 minute song is true genius. We can only appreciate what he has left behind but, oh, I cannot but imagine what else he might have created.
The great stan sounding lovely.Beautiful song.
Great in every aspect...miss you,but too I'm getting old and I'll hear you play in due time
it is amazing to me that a man can understand what this moment is to the women. Incredible!
Maryann Nolan , there are men who feel as much or more than others, women included, and are not afraid to feel it. They will not be found in a bar or a kiss
Claudia, it is also one of the greatest poems for a young couple just starting out their lives together. What better promise could a young man make to his bride? If he is a real man, that promise will be kept.
Another beautiful one by Stan.
wow this one ive not heard a great song from Stan thanks for this great post
The major invocation of memories!
Drips Carnation From A Can, a classic line in the song.
Wonderful piece of music!
Thank you Rikkio; one of my favorite poems...also one of the greatest poems for a couple in their old age. I appreciate the post. xxClaudia
That's a sweet song!
Thomas Moore's wife, Bessie had developed a terrible skin disease which had robbed her of her beauty. She was afraid that he would leave her. He never did. Instead he wrote this poem to her.
Some accounts say that she had confined herself to their home and would no longer venture out, but her husband's words gave her the courage to venture out into the world again. I give to you now a real man's idea of love. I only wish I had written these words.
Dear Canada, make more men like him, please? Also, if you could give this towering legend of a man the "Walk the Line" treatment, give him a biography movie, I would love you even more than I do already.
+James Carmody ...God Bless Chris,however Stan is there also sharing the heavens with the I.S.S. He was a Giant of a Man..His Legend lives on.
A story teller, and artist the likes of Stan Rogers comes along about once a generation.... Ladies and gentlemen, Canada is proud to present.... Gord Downie.
Another Canadian gem is "Home from the Forest" by Gordon Lightfoot. Give it a listen and enjoy, eh?
YES Gordon Lightfoot is a legend!
Who could play Stan Rogers?
Magic voice!
Man this makes me tear up like nothing else, fuark
but make thee more dear.
For the heart that hath truly loved never forgets, but it truly loves on to the close.
As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets, the same look that she gave when he rose.
This is new to me. Thanks!!!
Love Stan, how unfortunate he was taken so early his music does live on .
Damn fine song
The greatest love song ever writ
Such a shame he died, and at 33 too! I guess God got tired of waiting and just wanted Stan to play for him all the time.
So true, sffilk, it hurts. Thanks. C.
excellent, salute from a Texan.
Texas?..ARE YOUUUUU FROM THE SOUUUUUTH?!?!?!!?
Travis Walsh
indeed i am, from the south .although Texas is like a whole different country in many ways.
Was cleaning up some old posts and came across this one. Ceb, thanks for your comment " I think I'm in love ". Heh, not sure if you meant me or Thomas Moore, but I know which I prefer, lol. Anyway, I hope you don't mind me spamming your site a little by posting Thomas' entire poem to his wife here. It just goes so much in line with Stan's song and some may not be familiar with it. I also think "Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms" is the greatest poem/song ever for a wedding.
Please take time to look at the Belle Heaulmiere and the quote from Robert A. Heinlein's "Stranger in a strange Land" in which his character, Jubal Harshaw, describes how he interprets the art. Since I can't seem to post a link, google the words Heinlein and Rodin. It is definitely worth a look!
“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them.” - Robert Heinlein
I just posted a link to this song to a Heinlein group discussing the passage in SiaSL.
@@spankygray Holy **** Wow. I just gained even more respect for Heinlein.
What a great love song
Well said, theshadow1932. Also remember the words of Thomas Moore to his wife Bessie who had developed a terrible skin disease which robbed her of her beauty. " Believe me if all those endearing young charms, which I gaze on so fondly today, were to fade by tomorrow and fleet in my eyes like fairy gifts fading away. Thou would still be adored as this moment thou art, let they lovliness fade as it will. And around the dear ruin each beat of my heart shall entwine itself verdently still.
@paulkearnsmusic I heard that he did get out, but he went back in to help others get out. He died a hero. RIP Stan.
You are very welcome, sjbaldwin. I plan to post more. I am confident his great songs and voice will always live. C.
What I, truly, cannot understand is the dislikes. It's music, ffs!
Lovely comment, shadow. Thank you for listening to this insightful Stan Rogers song. C.
"...So this is Beauty's finish. Like Rodin's "Belle Heaulmiere",
The pretty maiden trapped inside the ranch wife's toil and care...."
@DJDAGGER11
Thank you for the comment. I agree. Stan was an incredible songwriter and one of the loveliest singers ever. All of his songs show his great heart.
C.
Cryingggg
Personally my favourite song by Stan. Amazing talent. Amazing voice. Amazing insight to the female psyche. How could he possibly have know the fairer sex so well? I wish my mirror told me "Lies"....
@bumerry I suspect that if your husband is the kind of man who knew the words to the song that he is also the type of man who will live by them. I wish you both a long and happy life together.
@Razhumykin I quite agree, Raz. Though in retrospect I tend to think that the Belle Heaulmiere was more likely what inspired him to write the song. Without prior knowledge of it's existance and it's meaning he would, of course, never thought to search for the referance.
weird...my lecturer supposed to give assignment...but the link brought me here...emm...
This is true.
And now I know what that is.
Whoops! My comment regarding the designated lass was intended as a humorous slant on the literal lyrics. Sorry it missed the mark. Geez , gang, let's all lighten up here. Regards, Erstaz Jerry Seinfeld
a commenter compared the sculpture to a poem by Villon: (translated in part):
.......And I see myself so changed.
Poor desiccated thin, shriveled,
I nearly go mad!
What has happened to
my smooth brow,
My blond hair... .
My slender shoulders,----
+Bob Boise III A comenter noted that a commenter compared the sculpture to a poem by Villon
no kidding!
Rikkio, sorry to be so late reading your comment. I think I am in love...C.
Well after 7 kids that's no surprise but why can not her mirror tell her lies.
Musicona xurumelas
He makes a reference to a "Ronin's Bell on Air?" (understandably it is likely a different language reference). I cannot find any reference to anything like this and I'm hoping someone here understands the reference.
+Yankpats That's Auguste Rodin's sculpture "La Belle Heaulmière": www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/11.173.3
+mrpretzelmrpretzel thanks
Died to young
Great voice, great style. Too bad the designated lass was given to craven prevarications. Cordially, John
Pretty selfish of God.
Kinda a rat bastard to call such a talent home so soon.