Joni Mitchell-The Magdalene Laundries (Live in Japan)
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Such power and compassion.
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Such a powerful song. Those poor women and what they had to endure. Life is cruel.
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Great tuning this song is played in:-
BF#BEAE, sounds deep and resonant on a 12-string, chords are easy...
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I'm a guy, and as much as I may play hyper-masculine testosterone charged heavy music live, I have to say that I wouldn't dare to cover this song live. I won't be able to carry through without bursting into tears.
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Just saw the movie The Magdalene Sisters.... as sad as it was the included documentary on the DVD was just heart wrenching.... a lesson for us all to question everything and everyone including ourselves.... and to think for ourselves...
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Then you ought to appreciate the magnificent left-handed strumming by Barbara Lynn in the video of her live performance of «You'll Lose A Good Thing»! Worth checking out!
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JONI'S SONGS ARE TYPICALLY WRITTEN ABOUT TRUE LIFE EVENTS AS SEEN THROUGH HER
INSIGHTFUL EYES.
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This is a very intense song with an insight into what happened in the laundries/ very very enlightening
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if you really look into it & knowing the catholic church was behind it ,, it makes you ashamed to be catholic ,, i hope all those who passed through these places find peace in their lives xx
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I did not realize this was a song about something real until I searched for it on Youtube. The song just always moved me, but I did not really know it was about something true. Holey moley.



the last magdelene laundry in Ireland closed in 1996 that is not so long ago....I myself was in a mother and baby home run by the nuns in ireland and my son was taken from me and adopted at birth in 1981...
NO MORE SECRETS AND LIES
annamariabrown 3 years ago 21
I love her accent,
Angushelen 2 years ago 10