When She Comes Down comparison...
 

"Go, Lassie, Go" by The New Christy Minstrels...



"Wild Mountain Thyme" by The Byrds



http://die-augenweide.de/byrds/songu...tain_thyme.htm

Seriously, no one hears it?

I think I hear it A LOT in the chorus of the The New Christy Minstrels. Wow, so much... The arrangement and mesh of The Byrds song is very indicative of WSCD. Gosh, those are really great examples.

Beautiful songs.

I hear the comparisons too. Especially in the first one. Great find!

Cool! Thanks guys. I was playing Pandora radio yesterday and almost fell over when I heard the New Christy Minstrels version.

Whoa, Lindsey totally ripped that Lassie song off.. Great post CADreaming. The chord structure is the same. If they sung his lyrics, or vice versa, they could pass for one another.

After SAC, this also makes me sad.. But thanks for the insight CAD!

to me this sounded so much like irish folk song, but that's b/c it is lol. interesting write-up about the song ownership on wikipedia (not sure how believable wikipedia stuff is, but apparently Rod Stewart was taken to court over it already!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Mountain_Thyme

WSCD doesn't have a feeling of an irish folk song to me but i can see the resemblance in chorus, especially since the words are so similar during that part too. i don't know enough / am not musical enough to hear what the chords are, so i will leave that to Spikey and people who can hear them.

cool water?
 

talking about irish folk songs, i always just assumed that Cool Water demo that FM did is a cover of some irish folk song. does anybody know whether that's correct - and if so, was that the name of the original song?

EDIT: ok, so my lack of knowledge about FM comes through - FM's Cool Water cover is apparently B-side to Gypsy. thought is was just a demo. and it's not a folk song - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Water . either way, i love macters' version of it :) - and like it much better than WSCD :sorry:

Thanks Spikey. I thought it's a bit nostalgic, sort of going back to his folk roots.

I just came across this, CAD...from 8/24/11 Huffington Post interview:

MR ( Mike Ragogna ): Okay, the song, "When She Comes Down." One of my favorite folk songs is "Wild Mountain Time," and I love how you have a little nod to that in the chorus.

LB: Yes, exactly.

MR: Obviously you have a love of folk, in addition to a love of all kinds of music.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-r...source=message

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I have to laugh at the "yes exactly." It could mean, "Yes, I totally stole it" or "Yes, I have no idea what song you're talking about, but I'll play it off."

Michele

I know what you mean,that it could mean anything, really, but doesn't it kind of sound like him, when you say something and he's happy you "get it"? Yes. Exactly"

cool find, completely forgot about that (plus we didn't know all songs yet when that interview first came out). and of course they misspelled thyme.

actually, reading the words of Wild Mountain Thyme, they reminded me of "lay me down in the tall grass and let me do my stuff" :laugh:. pulling wild thyme all around purple heather and laying down in the mountain flowers - maybe lindsey's connection / drawing inspiration from that song goes much deeper than just WSCD?!

see lyrics here: http://www.rampantscotland.com/songs/blsongs_thyme.htm

Bad enough the media always misspells Lindsey's name, his song names, and even his album titles, but now they can't even spell other peoples' songs right if it's in an article about him :rolleyes: Wild Mountain Time!! WOO_HOO!! Not nearly as romantic as Wild Mountain Thyme :distress:

yeah, like "Come is about Anne Heche right?" "Yes, sure."