Mimi & Richard Farina - The Falcon

If you like Simon & Garfunkel, this is for you. Hell, this might even be better than those two. To me it is, anyway.


Oh, the falcon was a pretty bird, wandered as she flew.
She danced around and pranced around wherever the warm winds blew.
And the falcon was a pretty bird. Her voice was always still,
But men with drums and men with guns they taught her how to kill.

Her eye was on the sparrow. Her mind was on the dove,
But no one cared and no one dared to speak to her of love.
Her eyes are always hooded. Her claws are sharp as steel.
We teach her not to see too much. We teach her not to feel.

Go build you a log cabin on a mountain so high,
And hear the feathered war-birds yell as she goes screaming by.
She'll tease you. She'll please you. She'll satisfy your needs,
But someday she might turn around and maul the hand that feeds.

Your hours might be numbered. Your end might come someday.
Go break her chain and free her brain and send her on her way.
And the falcon is a pretty bird, wonders as she flies.
She asks us easy questions. We tell her easy lies.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• 1965
• 60s
• folk

[stevessn]

Thank you for uploading these songs from Richard and Mimi's first album. My sister saw them in person in 1965 at the Newport Folk Festival.She has good memories of these two in the prime of their career.

[Doughnut189]

Excellent. I have been trying to find this song for a long time.

[acerb45666555]

Excellent! *****

[pontedupre007]

Beautiful !!

[terrybriody]

Voices combine beautifully. Thanks for this.

[Dulcimerea]

One of my favorites for about 40 years, thank you for putting it here where hopefully many more people will find it It is one of the greatest antiwar folk songs of the whole Civil Rights + Vietnam War era, and you've done the world a service by making it so widely and easily available. In fact, potentially far more available than it ever was before. This song is as much a historical document as it is a song.

[razalady]

What a beautiful song!! Thank you for uploading it.