Bruce Cockburn Cover: God Bless the Children

Last song off 'Night Vision'. Drop D tuning. I've always found the verses to this song interesting-- the vaguely medieval imagery, borrowing from the Chronicles of Narnia; the internal rhyming (grave/graven, rampant/rampart etc). I'm pretty sure I got some of those lyrics wrong here, but whatever.
It's interesting to me, as well, that this song was written before Cockburn was born again. I interpret the song as millenarian: the first two verses describe the decay an illusion of this world (experience time-centered), while the last verse imagines a hawk bursting forth from highway paved with diamonds etc. Who knows.

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Music

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• Bruce
• Cockburn;
• Martin
• OM-21;
• fingerstyle;
• Night
• Vision;
• acoustic
• guitar

[fortlangley100]

Way to go again! Great job. Glad these older Cockburn gems are recorded in this way for posterity.

[emanudero]

Beautiful song ; very , very good cover...congratulation