Joan Baez - Sweet Sir Galahad

[steptorand]

Hauntingly beautiful.

[mistershoopdawoop]

im gonna be hippie :)

[gene5594]

melrosemiss,

I think you hit the nail on the head. :-)

[zisi48]

she was the queen of folk music and the king was dylan

[melrosemiss]

Again, I cannot imagine anyone not liking any of her songs or her voice. 8 dislikes on this one. I just don't get it. The purity of her voice is incomparable. Perhaps the dislikes just don't care for her beliefs?

[Mrfauvette]

Comment ne pas aimer ? Les chansons , l'être , son engagement, tout de ce que nous connaissons...

[lilirose18]

I overlike this song

[98monkey89]

She looks beautiful

[surfpete31]

i just love this song and the wonderful Joan Baez. Such a beautiful voice. Happened upon this song when searching for something else and memories of 30yrs + ago flooded back - thanks Joan.

[OhCaptainMyBeefheart]

Even when she dresses as a school boy I wanna jump Joan's bones

[littlegreenliza]

@OhCaptainMyBeefheart Especially when she dresses as a schoolboy!

[Juliogarten]

Joan is just....special

[folksinger91]

Is that John Hartford playing behind her? So awesome.

[pdorn777]

This song is still fresh more than 40 years on!!

[xXSauvageXx]

My name is Galahad. :D

[mobydoug]

Young Joan was stunning looking and sounding. ....A kind of angel come to Earth... Her dad, btw, was a physics teacher.

[caleab27]

Thank you Joan for your contribution to American Music history, and for being an all-around wonderful person/musician.

[bobwaits]

@Mimiandjoaniebaez ..my apologies..you are correct...I am flawed in my research...I thought I was wrong once... but I was incorrect...

[bobwaits]

@Mimiandjoaniebaez I believe it was for Mimi and Richard Farina...her first husband?

[moredhel87]

This still (after hearing it a 1000 times) makes me cry.

[Muhla123]

Fantastic voice!

[jewel4america]

OMG... this is so old I bet there aren't too many people who saw her sing this...

[Friedenspfeife321]

@jewel4america

Hey, it´s coloured. I think there are still some ;-)

[jewel4america]

@Friedenspfeife321 lol... I remember when we were all that young... I had a good friend that played guitar with Dylan for years.. but I stayed away from them all.. sort of intimidating.. love Dylan, always did.. felt like he was singing just for me ...<3

[momofspawn50]

@jewel4america when you are 50 or 60 and run across an artist or band from your youth, you will rethink your comment i bet :) There are many many of us still out here who saw this...we are called baby boomers and we are legion!! Enjoy your youth....life passes quickly for us all!!!

[wondermig]

Une merveille d'émotion et de nostalgie. Une des meilleurs chansons jamais écrite, interprétée par une artiste éternelle.

[basabi9]

She always touch my soul with her wonderful voice.

[hansfritzstrutz]

awesome!!!

[Merkin4pres64]

Esta canción es, tal vez, entre las mejores de todo el tiempo. Me encanta la melodia. La letra es conmovedora, pero sin ser sacarino. Es tan bella como su cantante.

[razalady]

Senora Baez canta como los angeles!! Es la maxima!!

[MrAndyroo1091]

This song always reduces me to tears....but in an amazingly good way. :)

[Randompzycho]

I watched this with my 4 year old niece and she laughed and said "she has clown eyes"

[Bigpheet]

Scary version? - 8 (eight) people still refuse to spend a wee bit of cash £$ on a decent earing-aid.

[xXSauvageXx]

My name is Galahad. [:

[thepersona100]

She has such a unique pretty voice.

[Ariennezita]

Joan la mejor cantante del mundo.

[Rafael19762009]

ANGEL'S VOICE

[HolyMotherofGrid]

So young.... so beautiful.. so AMAZING!!! She's one of the great musical treasures of our time. I get chills just trying to imagine what the sound would have been like if she and my other favorite "Jo" singer of all time, Joni Mitchell had ever gotten together for an epic/classic album of duets!!!! Just imagine......

[samurai7230]

How could any one possibly dislike this--or indeed anything--that Joan Baez did or does?

[yourbrupie]

yes, this voice is from heaven, and it is from an angel, and the massage is: peace over the world

[francis5000000]

the voice of the heaven

[kittyprydekissme]

Happy Birthday, Joan!

[jister2175]

STUNNING IN EVERY WAY J

[meonthehottinroof]

I love Joan Baez and think that she is beautiful but she should never have cut her hair short. She looked a lot better with that long dark gleaming hair

[Arrechera1989]

this song makes me skin crawl, it's so beautiful

[Daedalus1776]

@Arrechera1989 You and me both. Song breaks my heart.

[josephonwhidbey]

Joan Baez and All Capp (Li'll Abner) had a fued sort of thing going on but I think they liked each other.

[rinuz69]

grande joan, concerto di piazza della loggia a brescia. se gia prima mi piaceva, da quel giorno ho iniziato ad amarla.. grande!!!!

[fannydecouverte]

@Mimiandjoaniebaez YOU ARE RIGHT ! I AGREE WITH YOU

[finngirl13]

@Mimiandjoaniebaez: on Joanie's 1970 two-LP set titled "The First 10 Years" (which I wore out and gladly replaced), she intros Galahad by saying "this is a song I wrote for my sister Mimi and her husband, Richard Farina, whom some of you remember" ... which is followed by applause from the audience before she begins singing. the re-issue CD of the same title is condensed and omits the intro, but she def wrote this song for Mimi/Richard!

and the cover photo is gorgeous, perhaps my favorite

[altongrimes]

It is remarkable how forever fresh and vibrant is this spectacular talent. A mountain of inspiration and creative genius. An oasis of good things. I remember her at Woodstock, her crystalline voice flashing through the night.

[SiemEik]

@Mimiandjoaniebaez - are you sure? I think folkmusicgirl is right.

[DarwinAwardsInc]

I can't believe how pure this is.

[mlc2005]

Absolutely Gorgeous!!! Period.

[MilkOfSuccess]

I just realized how much Siouxsie Sioux from Siouxsie and the Banshees looks like Joan Baez in this!

:O They're so pretty

[BBnose]

very good song and nice look!

she dressed like a boy.

[serverthetilted]

rachel brooke and joan baez, my favorite female singers.

[irishmadman409]

@Mimiandjoaniebaez thank you

[irishmadman409]

does anyone know the song were she talkes about a man wants to marry her but her love went off to war and she is waiting for him to come home and she isnt sure if he is dead or married to another women but she still wont marry the guy that asked her i believe its an english poem

[pepsipopsihoogalto]

@irishmadman409

John Riley?

[nickmcgivney]

Go on Joan, crack a smile! It's not like we'll use the intervening thirty years to wreck the planet ffs.

[mandernu]

If any woman will ever have a more beautiful voice, it most definiitely won't be in my Lifetime. God blessed her with pipes like no other!!!

[manuel12777]

¡¡¡¡saludos desde chile,inolbidable artista ,al igual que PETE SEGERS,VICTOR JARA,VIOLETA PARRA,ETC,,,,GRAN JOAN BAEZ,,,,DESDE ACA TE RECORDAMOS TU SOLIDARIDAD CON NUESTRO PAIS EN TIEMPOS DE TERROR Y DICTADURA MILITAR,,,,gracias JOAN BAEZ.

[thefoundinside]

oh, i adore this song.

[Mikesch42]

Good old times, creative, OWN made and self performed in a most beautiful way...that is purity and all what is music about...........at that time the music was from the performer -hand made-......today it comes from the listener (public)..What a losssssssssss!

[folkmusicgirl]

Such a beautiful song and so, so sad that was written about Joan's brother-in-law, Richard Farina who Mimi (Joan's younger sister) was married to. Sadly, Richard Farina died in a motorcylce accident after leaving a celebration party for his new book in April 1966 in Carmel. California. Sadly, Mimi Farina Baez passed away in July 2001 at the age of 56.... from a form of cancer.

This song always brings tears to my eyes... such heartfelt song.

[teppest11]

Joan Baez has a great such a great voice.

[159woodstock]

Diese Stimme begleitet mich seit 30 Jahren.

Ich bin begeistet von Joanie!!!

[lamusevenale]

the song is mostly about her younger sister mimi...

[sandara29brazil]

Joan is the most beautiful singer I've ever seen!

[lenahjonsson]

Sweet memory: Remember hearing this song inside my head all midsummer of 1969, riding very fast on an mc, longing for someone, feeling I was in the wrong place....

[KRYTEN451]

Wow, a real special video of Joan Baez, a true national treasure

[BrokenSouls]

My love will always be my Sweet Sir Galahad. :)

[TheSheepdogLover]

Once again, Joan, you bring tears to my eyes due to the impact of your beautiful voice, and also because your presentation of this song. Joan, you will live in my life forever (since late 50's)!

[rocktenniscat]

Her voice makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck!  WOW.

[mochompy]

Her songs, and singing, is eternal. She is the best!

[bibsgirard]

Elis Regina e Joan Baez, as duas maiores!

[MrDrWaffles]

she's not bi, read her autobiography

[CredereNemo]

@MrDrWaffles I did read her autobiography, Daybreak, and in it she relates the long term ralationship hse had with a woman. And why does it make any difference ?

[yvankhamou]

une grande dame

[TheSaverino]

He, Richard Farinia, wrote the book, "Been Down So Long, It's Beginning to Look Up To Me"

[wetube801]

Chivalry is dead, but vampires still live.

[lizzthebeatnik]

amazing. I want to be her.

[mrslilijam]

she's bi.

i love her.

[BogotaEmbajadora]

good.. but i like it better when she sang it in woodstock, it was better in that performance than in this one.

[elaine31347]

Her sister Mimi was married to Dick Farina who died in a motorcycle accident in 1966. This song was written by Joan for her sister and was sung at her wedding to her second husband.

[pdorn777]

A stunningly beautiful song!

[HumbertoPoubel]

putz... valha-me God... the tears is gonna fall... muito bom

[tadeojavierrivas]

me gustaria encontrar lasletras ylas traducciones

[cardiolli]

ho i brividi

[cardiolli]

brividi

[Catloud]

This song is amazing and Joanie is so beautiful with her crystalline voice

[tumadoireacht]

@Catloud two huge cold sores -pre acyclovir ?

[okfinefcs]

This really takes me back, one of my many favorite songs by Joan.

[hasc0305]

i love her

[gust77sweden]

This is so great!!!

[corell1ts]

...immer wieder herrlich anzuhören...

Joan ist die größte !!!!!!!!!

Joan is the greatest !!!!!!!!!!!

[countrynfolk]

when I saw this and I fell in love w fold singing.

[hallnoats4ever]

what year was this

[strawberryseason]

It was around 1968.

[donr1954]

A god given voice one of the best ever. westdowntotheeast, she isn't a lesbian. he husband did time in prison because is was a draft rister. She was pregnant at woodstock one.

[keygain]

This is one of my favorite Baez songs.

[gonzobuc1]

Haven't heard this in 20 years. thanks for posting. Don't know why I looked for it.

Glad I did.

[TheMusicalboxer]

Beautiful song,beautifully sung. . . beautiful lady!

[stunned69]

really performance for a great singer . One of the beautiful ever seen in the latest decades . Thanks for putting it up .

Keep posting . really appreciated tho' .

Greetings from italy

[bearguySF]

.."my fate's belated, 'cause of all the hours I've waited, for days when I'd no longer cry."

I'm mourning the death of ex-boyfriend, I loved him so.

[janiepdoodle]

my thoughts, love, heart, is, are with you

[19561127]

Única, perfeita, abençoada voz que me traz à memória a minha juventude.

[pauloroselli]

maravilhosa,voz de anjo,tambem fez parte da minha juventude , muitas saudades

[elgaleonora]

Maravilha! fez parte da minha juventude!

[goldberry6]

prelepa je.i ona i pesma.i ono sto obe nose.

[celiafuentesmodinger]

exelente cantante,una voz estraordinaria...con sentimiento

[bepitoninane]

bravissima

[sirgalaha]

Great Joan

[kittrasis]

Truly, some of the most wonderful lyrics ever written. I'm so glad you posted this.

[fortuitousnisa]

What year is this performance? It looks like its in the 70's.

[dbodulic]

This is the performance from the 223rd episode of the Smother brothers show in 1969. The song was written the same year and included in the album "One day at the time" in 1970.

[fortuitousnisa]

1969? Well, I was close.

Thanks very much!

[dbodulic]

No problem! Glad to help when i can :-)

[wetube801]

She might have started experimenting, after she tried to sink her fangs into Bob Dylan and he told her: 'It ain't me babe'.

[09findhorn]

They sang "It Ain't Me Babe" together, sweetie. The song wasn't about her. Plus, if anyone had fangs, it was Dylan, not Joan. Read up before you make an a__ of yourself with ignorant comments.

[woody1445]

just watched her on woodstock diaries.....fell in love

[nakhitali]

is she a DYKE?

[woody1445]

are you a complete prick?

[naturegirl46]

That would be her business - not yours.

[09findhorn]

RT to nakhitali: Extremely ignorant and irrelevant comment. Go watch TV. Maybe something like Roller Derby would be more appropriate for your obviously low level of intelligence.

[westdowntotheeast]

No see, women didn't have to look like anorexic hookers with boob jobs who have no real musical talent back then.

Their assets were in their musical talents, not how much they showed of their asses.

And even if she were a lesbian, why would it matter?

[crapouille2004]

Une des plus belles voix si ce n'est la plus belle que j'ai jamais entendue

[MississippiSheik]

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx always

[nypchung]

RIP Mimi

Please read "Positively 4th Street"

[ASAVARDI]

non ci sono parole........solo baci per questa donna

[blindcommisioner]

This song is about someone specific but it's also about the triumph of joy and optimism over sorrow and despair which is what goes so deep, propelled by this exquisite woman's otherwordly voice.

[lajuanamarrana]

wow! tremendous voice! She sings 20cm far from microphone (juast as actual singers... they eat it!) and her voice sounds to heaven!

[nemito79]

Each time I hear this song I'm deeply moved. Joan is the most adorable singer.

[blindcommisioner]

Joy-filled American Goddess.

[Jay3039]

this is really nice

[ellenwolfie]

this song has always fascinated me - and yes it was about Mimi, her sister and her first husband Richard Farina. Mimi and Richard used to sing duets way back in the day. What a tender and lovingly sensitive piece of writing and music this one is!

[paganmud]

I agree - a beautiful song! Made me cry the first time I heard it. I think, that it is about Mimi and her second husband, Milan Melvin - the sadness of those 'years that numbered three' are the years after Richard's death.

When I first heard this song I was so sad that there didn't seem to be enough of this sort of romance in the world. Then I read that Mimi and Milan divorced after a couple of years. Now I just don't know. Still a great song!

[Obelisk2290]

its about richard farina joan tells the story that is recorded in the woodstock album

[Obelisk2290]

I apologize i thought for ages that it was about farinas, now i see its about farinasand milan wow wiki ssg

[paganmud]

yeah man, wiki rules! :)

[talfactor]

From a distant time when you could turn on your TV and hear someone as unbelievably talented as Joan Baez being backed up by someone as unbelievably talented as the late John Hartford on banjo playing those beautiful rippling arpeggios around Joan's exquisite vocals.

I don't know where this kind of thing went but at least there's still extant evidence that this did occur...thanks to whoever posted this beautiful bit of footage.

[opiedrum]

Beautiful song and magnificent finger-picking by Joannie. I love the version she did at Woodstock (from the Woodstock 2 vinyl - I'm showing my age!). It was Joannie alone w/o side musicians.

[christophe76382]

The very first song that joanie wrote

[yd22t]

Extraordinaire Joan Baez, il faudrait vraiment que le temps s'arrête,

Heureux ceux qui ont pu la rencontrer.

[mrc926]

Her husband David "Galahad" was against the war in VietNam & refused his draft. was sentenced to 3 years in prison. He did not run to Canada, he stayed & was imprisoned. Joan wrote this song.She said why & CBS censured that part & only her singing was shown (as is here)

[rolliegyrl2]

No. As Joan says in her biography, she wrote this song for Milan Melvin who was her sister Mimi Farina's 2nd husband. Her first husband Richard was killed in a motorcycle accident on her 21st birthday. Mimi lived a deep depression for three years until she met and married Melvin. Joan wrote this song on the occasion of their marriage. Both Mimi and Milan have passed now.

[rolliegyrl2]

God, I love this.

[blindcommisioner]

Joan still dwells in that rarefied realm only inhabited only by gods and goddesses of music. That adorable humble and sincere crooked toothed smile at the end is as beautiful as her voice and this lovely song

[timothy81]

u one of the best, joanie

[Irishglen6]

I had the great pleasure of meeting Joan Baez i on a lonely beach morning....She was barefoot, and so was I,...She said, "I am Joan"...I said,.."I know, I am David"...we both smiled, and watched the surf awhile, I finally confessed that "Long Black Veil" was my favorite, she said, "I loved recording that song, it is my favorite too"...Decades later, she still remains my favorite lady of music.

[columbohayden]

I heard her sing this song last year in Zagreb, Croatia. Fantastic concert, she is still fabulous!

[pyrozvanipile]

kad je bila u zagrebu? zašto ja nisam vidio :(

[columbohayden]

Prošle godine u srpnju. Koncert je bio rasprodan.  Nastupila je u tvornici. Evo i report na SoundGuardianu

[vicparis]

I heard her sing this song at Esalen Institute in Big Sur in the sixties. It was amazing. Mimi had just married Milan.

[katsimbalis7]

Excelente cantora! A trilha musical da revolução, da liberdade, do caos & anarquia!! É isso ai!!

[GREATMUSICLIVESON]

Thanks for this

Probably my favourite Joan Baez song.

Hope my daughter finds her sweet sir Galahad

[pontedupre009]

This is a real artist. This girl was born to sing..... you can see that it comes so natural to her.

[martindrago2]

Beautiful...simple beautiful.

[Cuarthol]

I know, she has wonderful hair...I would rather had her voice than her hair though. lol.

[LordExilio]

La voz

[Brighide]

fantastic song and fantastic voice

[yieldyieldyield]

I first heard this song about 10 years ago back when Napster first came out (when it was free), and it has always been a favorite of mine, although I cannot quite make it through the whole song without a tear all these years later. It's truly touching.

[eviledna69]

Milan Melvin was the name of the 2nd husband. My mistake in 1st post.

[eviledna69]

This song is beautiful. I first heard it on a Woodstock lost performance video. I cant belioeve they would not put this in the original movie!

Bittersweet part, it is about her sister Mimi, who lost her hubby, poet Richard Farina a couple of years before Sweet Sir Galahad appeared. Which was Marvin Milan. THey divorded a couple of years later. and Mimi died of cancer around 2002-05 sadly. Marvin is gone now also. What a beautiful memoir.

[casadyrocks]

They out in in the LP release "Woodstock II", which is where I first heard this back in the day

[keygain]

Joan,

It's been over 40 years and you still are #1 on my list of folk heroes of the 60's. You led us through some very turbulent times. Inspiration flowed from your songs and from your actions.

I am truly a better person for my life long journey with Joan Baez.

[doenou]

amazing!

thanks for posting this vid!

peace

[romancexrock]

Beautiful.

[wildwest70]

Grande Joan Baez, sempre attualissima. Questa ballata è la mia preferita.

[Covayes]

oh my god for the voice.i love you JOAN BAEZ

[protoville]

Hers was the authentic voice. How many tried but failed to emulate it?

[CharlieGirl1942]

Joan Baez will be doing a Chautauqua discussion and music in Boulder, CO on 9/20/08. I know she will be in Minneapolis on 11/13/08. I have tickets to both events. So she is still here, performing in the US>

[flagascaro]

2old2rock,

thank you for this. this song echoed during the halls in the first years following my birth, off of my brother's woodstock album. it is like listening to my mother, the divine mother. it began my life, and very nearly ended it in recent days. never knew what it meant until now. . .finding peace in my heart, and wishing them both well. to the unmet friend, 2old: Om. Shanti shanti shanti. Peace 1969.

[Horn3t600]

1974

Sydney Showground

My girl and 22,000 others sat enraptured for two and half hours as this glorious voice played the famous Showground echo.

Joanie, it was 34 years ago, and the memory will live when all others have faded.

Thank you for the hundreds of hours of joy your music has given me. God bless you.