love the way he uses a classic opening line " down the road I look and there runs Mary", from Tom Jones gem, Green green grass of home...classy touch in an amazingly beautiful song, Warren Ellis' violin is just goose bumps all over.
Sang this song to my now ex girlfriend. Damn song gets me every time Your funeral my trial and Henry's dream are my 2 fave nick albums even though i own them all.
Down the road I look and there runs Mary Hair of gold and lips like cherries We go down to the river where the willows weep Take a naked root for a lovers seat That rose out of the bitten soil But sound to the ground by creeping ivy coils O Mary you have seduced my soul And I don't know right from wrong Forever a hostage of your child's world And then I ran my tin-cup heart along The prison of her ribs And with a toss of her curls That little girl goes wading in Rollin her dress up past her knee Turning these waters into wine Then she platted all the willow vines Mary in the shallows laughing Over where the carp dart Spooked by the new shadows that she cast Across these sad waters and across my heart
One of the most beautiful songs I know.
This song broke my heart to pieces and decades later I’m still trying to put it back together 🦇🥀🌹
How so?
The same here, now in 2022, since I heard it for the first time many years ago.
You’re gay
love the way he uses a classic opening line " down the road I look and there runs Mary", from Tom Jones gem, Green green grass of home...classy touch in an amazingly beautiful song, Warren Ellis' violin is just goose bumps all over.
One of the most beautiful songs I know... thanks, Nick Cave!!
Absolutely beautiful, one of the most romantic songs ever written by Sir Nick.
Makes me cry everytime
This is just beautiful!
A fucking masterpiece ! May God bless Nick Cave .
Best love song ever...
So, so beautiful - and Nick's voice is just gorgeous on this. Great playing by all of them.
Sang this song to my now ex girlfriend.
Damn song gets me every time
Your funeral my trial and Henry's dream are my 2 fave nick albums even though i own them all.
Hope you work on your singing skills so you don’t get another breakup again
A masterpiece! Thank you for posting this video!
This song for every one offered
fabulous, man!
Excellent
Oh my God ...i love you like the heterosexual man should love you ....
❤️
Better than live forever
By oasis? Interesting comparison..
Anyone know where this was performed? I see that Warren Ellis was beardless then, that violin piece he plays in this version is just exquisite.
Well, we’ve got Mick Harvey, but no Blixa. So that would place it around Lyre of Orpheus. I’d guess about 2004.
Down the road I look and there runs Mary
Hair of gold and lips like cherries
We go down to the river where the willows weep
Take a naked root for a lovers seat
That rose out of the bitten soil
But sound to the ground by creeping ivy coils
O Mary you have seduced my soul
And I don't know right from wrong
Forever a hostage of your child's world
And then I ran my tin-cup heart along
The prison of her ribs
And with a toss of her curls
That little girl goes wading in
Rollin her dress up past her knee
Turning these waters into wine
Then she platted all the willow vines
Mary in the shallows laughing
Over where the carp dart
Spooked by the new shadows that she cast
Across these sad waters and across my heart