Donovan - To Try For The Sun

From album "Fairytale".

PLEASE NOTE: Found and edited by psychedelic yogi.

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• Try
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• Sun
• Fairytale
• Folk
• 60's

[rivlax]

This is not the original from "Fairytale." Totally different phrasing and the guitar work is different.

[GarryLoc]

This video was taken from the tv movie "A Boy Called Donovan" and i think this version of "To Try For The Sun" was specially recorded for it. People just often asking questions "from which album this song?", that's why i wrote that it's from the "Fairytale".

[ggreenwood4]

My favorite song by Donovan. I first met him in the Haight Asbury in San Francisco. Just before his concert at the Cow Palace. We walked to Golden GAte Park and picked my friend Steve & his girlfriend on the way. We sat on Hippie Hill and Steve played his Guitar. Donovan then asked if he could play it and sang this song for us! What a wonderful day that was! God Bless you Donovan and thank you!

[OutlawMinniePearl]

Oh how this song brought tears to my eyes as a young girl!!! Thanks so much for the beautiful footage of Donovan & Gypsy Dave. I love this cut even more than the original on the album. Will have to find the movie it's taken from. There is such great tenderness in Donovan. I would sing this song to the flowers over and over and thought he was the only person in the world who knew I felt. . . Are there awards for great videos? If so GarryLoc should get one for this one!

[DNAblues]

@toomanyhatz I didn't think you were insulting anybody. I guess it's just that this song brings back a memory of me running away in 1968 at age 15 or 16 with a friend of mine. We shivered on top of a mountain "in the breeze at midnight" and all. Those lyrics just speak to that memory. As for "it was no good what we done, I dare a man to say I'm too young" that reminds me of Donovan and Gypsy Dave taking off and traveling around. Kind of like me running away. That's all. No worries. Great song.

[toomanyhatz]

@DNAblues - I'm not sure why it's homophobic to point out (positively, I thought) that there's a possible edge of homoeroticism to the story. If anything I was saying that Buckingham took some of that edge out of the song by making it about a man and a woman. I suspect some of the people who "[said] it was no good what [they] done" might not have thought twice about a young man and woman traveling together. I also know plenty about Donovan so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

[toomanyhatz]

Yes, I'm aware that Stevie Nicks is a woman. I'm also aware that Gypsy Dave is a man, and I was pointing out that it changes the meaning of the song to make it about a man and woman rather than two men. Upon realizing his gypsy is not a gypsy boy at all, but Nicks, it makes more sense, but I still think nobody's going to "say it was no good what we done" if it's between a man and a woman as readily as they will two men whether it's sexualized or not. I guess I'm not sure why you're confused.

[whittingham4665]

YOU LUCKY PERSON!

[FLSHBK1]

Mannnn~ this throws me back to the mid '60s! Wind in my hair, 12-string on my back, motorcycle under me, long-haired brown-eyed girlfriend whom I truly loved. We harmonized to every Donovan song together on grassy hills, searching for the true meaning of life's mysteries (and answers) in his lyrics. It was a great time to be a teen, and in love. What great music we grew up to! I weep for today's kids ~ will they never know? Can we ever teach them? Thank you, God, for letting me live that!

[DNAblues]

@toomanyhats: I think you have a problem called homophobia. This is not meant to be an insult believe me.

Gypsy Dave is an accomplished sculpture and artist. I think that most people have close friends and best friends of the same sex. That doesn't make them gay.

Read the wiki on Donovan to learn more.

[weckalini]

a groundbreaking song of love, liberation, & solidarity.

[DNAblues]

Great song and even better memories. Back in the late 60s my best friend and I ran away from NJ to join the Flower Power movement in San Francisco.

Each bing 15 our years put together counted 30. Also being 15 and since it was late August we figured it would be warm everywhere.

We slept the first night atop the tallest mountain in Pennsylvania and it was cold.

I love the video too. I remember us hitting a truck stop around 3AM, totally frozen, trying to get some coffee. They could tell we

[TheBluebellMoon2]

Yes I met Donovan too .....he actually lived round the corner from me !!!! Used to see him playing his guitar sitting on a wall. He used to walk past my house........my sisters used to scream whenever they saw him ...40 plus years on I still luv his songs! 'Tenderness'...sooooo right!

[MrMiseeire]

this song brings me back to 1974, when i and my wife first moved in together. She sang this song for me and I dont know to this day if she meant me to be the gypsie boy, but when i hear it I get goose bumps. Beautiful melody.

We are still together and 37 years are gone.