Songs About Mary

chalmers said:

"When Joseph Was An Old Man"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7JzmJTUUko

Also known as "The Cherry Tree," this darkly humorous Christmas carol features a resentful Joseph getting one-upped by the Virgin Mary, with some help.

 Check out the Joan Baez version I posted above.


While we’re on covers of earlier posts, a few countrymen update the Easybeats:


Hypothesis: The chances that any random performer has a song about a Mary are at least 50-50.

Test: Whoever Colbert’s and Fallon’s musical guests tonight are.

Subjects: Ben Folds and H.E.R.

Outcome: Confirmation.


The original:

Construction:

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Performance:



Did anyone post this old fave from Aqualung? 


No. Four pages in, none of us philistines ever came up with that one.

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DaveSchmidt said:

No. Four pages in, none of us philistines ever came up with that one.

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 Well, I'm glad, then, and humbled, to have submitted, by your grace, that modest entry. 


I can't see all the videos that came before, and a lot didn't have titles.  But I haven't seen this one yet:


If it hasn't yet been mentioned...


This was actually the first song I thought of.  The video quality is sucky, but the audio is spot on - 


TheJmon said:

This was actually the first song I thought of.  The video quality is sucky, but the audio is spot on - 

 Me too! Posted it on the day this thread was started. Great song!


Train_of_Thought said:

 Me too! Posted it on the day this thread was started. Great song!

 One of the most underrated but powerful bands ever, you have superior taste in music.  


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