Kate&Anna McGarrigle"Gentle Annie"

Gentle Annie

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• Annie

[mawhel]

like a flower whose spirit has departed

[MikeBobSkip]

Written in 1856 by Stephen Collins Foster, "Gentle Annie" is based on a true story according to his brother, Morrison. Young Annie was sent to the dry good store one night in a storm when a team of horses were spooked, perhaps by lightning. Annie was trampled to death. Foster was dressed for an evening engagement, but went to the girl's home, his neighbors, as soon as he heard of the tragedy. He remained throughout the evening to offer comfort to her grieving parents.

[russtacean]

our hearts and our prayers are always with you dear Kate...

may we meet one day on the shores of white sand.

[Aesop059]

@Perrygodmother If we are "Fed" anything (which I doubt) we can use our inner souls to reject rubbish as it arrives. This type of song will always touch and excite our souls, if we have a brain to process the input.

[mlsieee]

My beloved wife, Annie, lost her battle with cancer two months ago. This song reminds me of all that we shared and she loved in our life together.

[lskarin]

Kate and Anna are the most "musical" pair I've ever had the pleasure of hearing, even though I'm not clear on what "musical" means. They composed. They sung. They "covered." (I hate the word "covered" for performing another's composition.) But they were also bilingually capable of communicating with Canadians and Canadian-friendly Americans like me the import of appreciating North-American "culture," whether it be Quebecois, or Stephen Foster's Americana.

[normken]

@gundusaurus

God Bless you all in Norway my friend, I'm from Northern Ireland, we know what it's like.

[lskarin]

@pimpernet Cannot agree more! If only for the "real version" of NaCl."

[gundusaurus]

This song brought me comfort after the terrible events on the 22. of July.

Thank you from Norway.

[shrike188]

Truly Beautiful!

[sleaponit21]

its just beautiful

[bigmarty56]

I'm a guitar player/singer, and I've been doing this lovely song for years. I played it for a friend of mine, explaining that Foster wrote it after a young child of friends of his was tragically killed, and his comment to me was----"It's a beautiful song, but I can't imagine it was of much comfort to them".