*I've just listened again (it's so good), and at about 4:10, as Mary sings about Christmas songs on the radio, Tania plays a couple of bars of Jingle Bells on the fiddle. Like small gifts for the audience. Just brilliant, and I love the rose colour tint too.
This is a very spiritual song I think. I can just picture the very young Davy and all the cars going past doing their best to avoid him and his message. He and Mary are probably truer to the heart of Christmas than anyone else in the song. bc Cow Key Bridge is a landmark in Florida, I think Mary is using the Southern Cross in an artistic sense, the night sky. The landlord forgives - God forgives, it's quite beautiful even for this agnostic Xmas hypocrisy hater.
Thanks for explaining the Southern Cross, some of us in the underworld here have two ideas, either that the writer was on a 'trip', or that it's a hotel chain up that way. It's good not to have all the answers, makes for some interesting comments on MG's pages.
Thanks jillmandic, and thank you to our Canuck brothers and sisters for caring for our draft dodgers during VietNam. We remember your support.
I always assumed Davey stole his Christmas tree from a Kmart downunder and her lawn chair was under the bridge looking up at the beautiful Southern Cross (a constellation only visible in the Southern Hemisphere).
If the lyrics refer to the Cow Key Bridge in the Florida Keys, seeing the southern cross makes sense, as you can see it at the horizon that far north. I have seen it off south Florida. Any farther north and it is not visible.
Whatever Christmas and Christmas cheer is about, Davey got it right. Dear boy. I always think of homeless and marginalised people at this time of year. The 'Southern Cross" in this always confuses me though.
Fantastic stuff again from the nicely downbeat Mary G. Merry Christmas missus.
Mrgagor 2 months ago
Great tune...great songwriter...sad story.
utoad9 1 year ago 2
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Tak til Madsen for intro af Mary !
And tanks to Mary, it is a very great song - I like you tekst.
ErikSchaumann 1 year ago
Tak til Madsen for intro af Mary !
And tanks to Mary, it is a very great song - I like you tekst.
ErikSchaumann 1 year ago 4
Tak til Madsen for intro af Mary !
And tanks to Mary, it is a very great song - I like you tekst
ErikSchaumann 1 year ago 2
I really love the character of Davy, he seems so open and vulnerable.
tippngthevelvet 1 year ago
*I've just listened again (it's so good), and at about 4:10, as Mary sings about Christmas songs on the radio, Tania plays a couple of bars of Jingle Bells on the fiddle. Like small gifts for the audience. Just brilliant, and I love the rose colour tint too.
ednawalling 1 year ago 2
This is a very spiritual song I think. I can just picture the very young Davy and all the cars going past doing their best to avoid him and his message. He and Mary are probably truer to the heart of Christmas than anyone else in the song. bc Cow Key Bridge is a landmark in Florida, I think Mary is using the Southern Cross in an artistic sense, the night sky. The landlord forgives - God forgives, it's quite beautiful even for this agnostic Xmas hypocrisy hater.
ednawalling 1 year ago
Thanks for explaining the Southern Cross, some of us in the underworld here have two ideas, either that the writer was on a 'trip', or that it's a hotel chain up that way. It's good not to have all the answers, makes for some interesting comments on MG's pages.
Thanks jillmandic, and thank you to our Canuck brothers and sisters for caring for our draft dodgers during VietNam. We remember your support.
chitchant 1 year ago 2
I always assumed Davey stole his Christmas tree from a Kmart downunder and her lawn chair was under the bridge looking up at the beautiful Southern Cross (a constellation only visible in the Southern Hemisphere).
jillmandic 1 year ago 3
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If the lyrics refer to the Cow Key Bridge in the Florida Keys, seeing the southern cross makes sense, as you can see it at the horizon that far north. I have seen it off south Florida. Any farther north and it is not visible.
darlincommitme 1 year ago 2
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ahhh - that makes sense - thanks
jillmandic 1 year ago
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At last I can understand it. Thanks Darlin.
tippngthevelvet 1 year ago 2
Whatever Christmas and Christmas cheer is about, Davey got it right. Dear boy. I always think of homeless and marginalised people at this time of year. The 'Southern Cross" in this always confuses me though.
wattlesong 1 year ago 6