Joan Baez - So We'll Go No More A-Roving [HD]

Joan Baez sings 'So We'll Go No More A-Roving' from her 1964 Vanguard album 'Joan Baez/5'. The song is from a poem written in 1817 by Lord Byron; Richard Dyer-Bennet added text in a 1955 recording of the song. On the album, Baez does vocal and guitar while David Soyer plays cello and Gino Foreman plays guitar. The song lyrics are in the video and listed below.

Wikipedia describes Lord Byron's poem as follows: It evocatively describes the fatigue of age conquering the restlessness of youth. Byron wrote the poem at the age of twenty-nine. In the letter [containing the poem] to Thomas Moore, the poem is preceded by an account of its genesis. "At present, I am on the invalid regimen myself. The Carnival--that is, the latter part of it, and sitting up late o' nights--had knocked me up a little. But it is over--and it is now Lent, with all its abstinence and sacred music... Though I did not dissipate much upon the whole, yet I find 'the sword wearing out the scabbard,' though I have but just turned the corner of twenty nine."

[Vinyl/Lyrics/8-Images]

So We'll Go No More A-Roving

Singer - Joan Baez

So, we'll go no more a-roving
So late into the night
Though the heart be still as loving
And the moon be still as bright

For the sword outwears the sheath
And the soul wears out the breast
And the heart must pause to breathe
And love itself must rest

Though the night was made for loving
And the day return too soon
Still, we'll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon

Songwriters: Richard Dyer-Bennet, Lord Byron

© Universal Music Publishing Group

[Lyrics from LyricFind]

[flamingogirl]

Lord Byron words never sounded better Brava Joan

[craigoren]

My sister and I had that album (Joan Baez 5) when we were teen-agers. For whatever reason, there are other cuts on it that I remember better. I don't know why -- the song and Joan's singing are so wonderful!

[janverboven]

Joan never lets us down on inspiration and reality !

[JohnSmith-eipm]

I wish that when I go in a shop or cafe or put on the television and so call 'music' is played that this lady was played instead. It is so much pleasanter.

[katharinecybaez]

And our hearts be still as loving
By the passage of the moon.

In the night times I’ll be a~waiting
Of You Love and your coming home
So we’ll be forever a~glowing
In desires that we once have known

I love You my Lady Joan C BAez
Deine Katharine C. Y BAez Katharina Scharlowski InAOLoves

[suburbanbanshee]

Um... you do realize that Byron was ripping off an existing folksong? With a jolly jolly existing tune?