West
Country Girl (He made the piano tremble. He also shifted a couplet that had
never had any relevance about her to becoming one that did; it referred to her
parents hanging over her while she was followed by her unborn child, which just
made her throw back her head laughing.)
Mary Down by the River (first time she’d ever heard it)
People Just Ain’t No Good (it was all over right there)
The
Mercy Seat (in the totally different language of a ballad, eloquent in its
pain, “and I’m not afraid to die”.
The ring as a shackle came to the fore.)
Henry Lee (invoking that unseen juncture with PJ Harvey)
Papa
Won’t Leave you Henry (It was awesomely changed. By then she was a mess of
tears, “the ghost of her still lingers on”)
Straight
to You (precipice cascade moment of “Oh no, no, no, no, no, no no…don’t access
this it hurts too much. You have no right to access this; you do not even
know.”)
Love
Letter (this song premiered for the first time, his love letter to “her”,
wrapped in a “white envelope”, just what she’d put hers in that very morning.
If she’d have gotten the envelope back in Canada, it would have never have been
white, because they avoid the bleaching process. As she’d done it there that
morning, it so happened it was white. This song premiering sealed the letter’s
fate; she finally committed. “OK. You’re getting it.”)
Stagger
Lee (first time she heard it)
Wild
World (Birthday Party, first time she heard that)
Ship
Song
Loom
of the Land (“the moon a golden crown”)
Little
Empty Boat
Brompton
Oratory
I’m
A Roamin’
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