The fact that she's now performed this live a few times gives me hope that she'll record it in the studio. It's such a great cover.
@shelgr3
Жыл бұрын
YES!! I tried writing to her to ask her to do a studio version.
@ginnychudgar9088
8 ай бұрын
Yes, and it's good to know that she and Paul Simon like each other and admire each other as artists.
@guinessdraught2758 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading the video. At this event, I would have sat down and listened to this beautiful woman with the incredible voice. I hope that her tour will take her to Germany one day. Many greetings
@philveness8154 Жыл бұрын
Unbelievable…. The lyrics could have been written today! Yes the Statue of Liberty is drifting away- really here and everywhere! Where are we going? Thank you Rhiannon for a great performance.
@davidrivett7603
Жыл бұрын
That someone like Trump could be the president shows how lost America is. Never let it happen again. The world needs America to be a good country of benevolence and love for all people.
@philveness8154
Жыл бұрын
Yes and sadly it could happen again- millions and millions of Americans continue to embrace the values of immoral psychopath.
@brendahughes351 Жыл бұрын
Utterly fantastic -- this is truly the most amazing version of this song EVER!!
@juliegreenfield5007 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this lovely recording. I was sitting further back at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, and couldn't pick up the gorgeous sound. Rhiannon is a beautiful phenomenon.
@Monklane79 Жыл бұрын
This may be my favourite Paul Simon song. She sings it beautifully.
@ulrichmuller9800 Жыл бұрын
amazing !!!
@guinessdraught2758 Жыл бұрын
This is your song Rhiannon Giddens, no one sings it better or more beautifully than you.
@colinmitchell7200 Жыл бұрын
When are you going to come visit us in Cape Town,would love to see you live.
@langstonify Жыл бұрын
Wow.
@isberg48 Жыл бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤
@Chrisdavies33 Жыл бұрын
👌
@davidespinosa1910 Жыл бұрын
Another version: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eHqipdagcqvAo7Q.html
@SuperC888 Жыл бұрын
Why did she change the lyrics?
@tomphilippi2762
Жыл бұрын
She didn't. Paul Simon changed that verse for her to sing.
@rebeccaford5062 Жыл бұрын
The outdoor setting and audience make this version even more poignant than her more polished indoor performances.
@Anthony-hu3rj Жыл бұрын
Paul Simon's verse excluded Native Americans, Blacks, and all the millions upon millions of immigrants who came after the paltry few who came on the Mayflower. Her verse, while powerful, excludes all but the Blacks. May we learn, during the rest of this tumultuous century, to accept all who have come, and are coming, regardless of how or when.
@bobfromoilcity7274
Жыл бұрын
You’re missing the most basic point. Simon’s song is about our sadness and nostalgia for a failing myth, a stirring but inadequate myth based on some combination of truth, virtue, ignorance, lies, narcissism, and wishful thinking, that now seems unsustainable in the light of history and the forces of human conflict. The Mayflower lies at the foundation of that myth, as we all, at least those of us of a certain age, learned together in school. Simon’s people didn’t come here on the Mayflower either, obviously. The song isn’t a history lesson and it’s absurd to take the writer to task for that since that’s his point in the first place.
@twittertwice
Жыл бұрын
Woke police have arrived with their Karens and Darrens demanding 60s songwriter Paul Simon merely wrote “ a pretty song” and you wokies have done gone and woke it up?
@jamitch3
10 ай бұрын
Also it’s not her verse. Paul Simon made those changes himself when she was going to sing it.
@flintlockhomestead460 Жыл бұрын
Let your hair back down and bring your fiddle.
@ronaldthomas9112 Жыл бұрын
A pretty song turned political in this "woke" ie progressive view world.
@ibassnote
Жыл бұрын
Paul said he wrote this in reference to Nixon back in the day. So it was political from its inception.
@EricRoss57
Жыл бұрын
@@ibassnote Indeed it was.
@rolandwall1
Жыл бұрын
As one who was around when it was first released, I can guarantee you it's always been a political song.
@stevenmeyer9674
Жыл бұрын
it was always a "political" tune. Does it trigger you? If it does, don't be such a "snowflake", time for you to woke er, wake up.
@bobfromoilcity7274
Жыл бұрын
I bought There Goes Rhymin' Simon when it came out in 1973. First time I heard Paul Simon sing about the Statue of Liberty sailing away to sea I cried, wailing “no!” in my head, wishing desperately we would find some way to prove Simon’s dream of premonition wrong. I’ve been shaking my head ever since, and the song still moves me to tears sometimes. “A pretty song”? Not really. Wake up.
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The fact that she's now performed this live a few times gives me hope that she'll record it in the studio. It's such a great cover.
@shelgr3
Жыл бұрын
YES!! I tried writing to her to ask her to do a studio version.
@ginnychudgar9088
8 ай бұрын
Yes, and it's good to know that she and Paul Simon like each other and admire each other as artists.
Thank you for uploading the video. At this event, I would have sat down and listened to this beautiful woman with the incredible voice. I hope that her tour will take her to Germany one day. Many greetings
Unbelievable…. The lyrics could have been written today! Yes the Statue of Liberty is drifting away- really here and everywhere! Where are we going? Thank you Rhiannon for a great performance.
@davidrivett7603
Жыл бұрын
That someone like Trump could be the president shows how lost America is. Never let it happen again. The world needs America to be a good country of benevolence and love for all people.
@philveness8154
Жыл бұрын
Yes and sadly it could happen again- millions and millions of Americans continue to embrace the values of immoral psychopath.
Utterly fantastic -- this is truly the most amazing version of this song EVER!!
Thanks for this lovely recording. I was sitting further back at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, and couldn't pick up the gorgeous sound. Rhiannon is a beautiful phenomenon.
This may be my favourite Paul Simon song. She sings it beautifully.
amazing !!!
This is your song Rhiannon Giddens, no one sings it better or more beautifully than you.
When are you going to come visit us in Cape Town,would love to see you live.
Wow.
❤❤❤❤❤
👌
Another version: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eHqipdagcqvAo7Q.html
Why did she change the lyrics?
@tomphilippi2762
Жыл бұрын
She didn't. Paul Simon changed that verse for her to sing.
The outdoor setting and audience make this version even more poignant than her more polished indoor performances.
Paul Simon's verse excluded Native Americans, Blacks, and all the millions upon millions of immigrants who came after the paltry few who came on the Mayflower. Her verse, while powerful, excludes all but the Blacks. May we learn, during the rest of this tumultuous century, to accept all who have come, and are coming, regardless of how or when.
@bobfromoilcity7274
Жыл бұрын
You’re missing the most basic point. Simon’s song is about our sadness and nostalgia for a failing myth, a stirring but inadequate myth based on some combination of truth, virtue, ignorance, lies, narcissism, and wishful thinking, that now seems unsustainable in the light of history and the forces of human conflict. The Mayflower lies at the foundation of that myth, as we all, at least those of us of a certain age, learned together in school. Simon’s people didn’t come here on the Mayflower either, obviously. The song isn’t a history lesson and it’s absurd to take the writer to task for that since that’s his point in the first place.
@twittertwice
Жыл бұрын
Woke police have arrived with their Karens and Darrens demanding 60s songwriter Paul Simon merely wrote “ a pretty song” and you wokies have done gone and woke it up?
@jamitch3
10 ай бұрын
Also it’s not her verse. Paul Simon made those changes himself when she was going to sing it.
Let your hair back down and bring your fiddle.
A pretty song turned political in this "woke" ie progressive view world.
@ibassnote
Жыл бұрын
Paul said he wrote this in reference to Nixon back in the day. So it was political from its inception.
@EricRoss57
Жыл бұрын
@@ibassnote Indeed it was.
@rolandwall1
Жыл бұрын
As one who was around when it was first released, I can guarantee you it's always been a political song.
@stevenmeyer9674
Жыл бұрын
it was always a "political" tune. Does it trigger you? If it does, don't be such a "snowflake", time for you to woke er, wake up.
@bobfromoilcity7274
Жыл бұрын
I bought There Goes Rhymin' Simon when it came out in 1973. First time I heard Paul Simon sing about the Statue of Liberty sailing away to sea I cried, wailing “no!” in my head, wishing desperately we would find some way to prove Simon’s dream of premonition wrong. I’ve been shaking my head ever since, and the song still moves me to tears sometimes. “A pretty song”? Not really. Wake up.