Posted on 09/21/2020 4:53:02 PM PDT by Twotone
A truly great song for the season isn't about the calendar, or the weather. It's about the seasons of life and love:
Spring Is Here Why doesn't my heart go dancing?
But then: The Things We Did Last Summer I'll remember all winter long...
Of course, if you're not a young man whose fancy turns to love, spring fever may pass you by, and, if you're in late middle age, the summer may be no more likelier a prompter of romance than mid-November. Yet there is one great seasonal signifier that almost everyone responds to. You don't have to be moonstruck or in love at all to feel a certain melancholy when autumn nips the air:
The falling leaves Drift by the window The Autumn Leaves Of red and gold...
It's an image that reminds you of the cruel remorselessness of time, even in my part of the world - northern New England - where the foliage blazes brightest, red and gold and orange, just before it falls and dies:
A lovely performance that, save for one lyrical blemish in the first chorus - "sun-burned kisses" rather than "summer kisses". The summer sun is for romance; autumn leaves are a reminder of mortality, and decline, and loss:
Les feuilles mortes se ramassent à la pelle Les souvenirs et les regrets aussi Et le vent du nord les emporte Dans la nuit froide de l'oubli...
Which means, more or less:
Dead leaves are collected by the shovelful Memories and regrets, too And the north wind carries them Into the cold night of the forgotten...
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Les sanglots longs des violons de l’automne
Blessent mon cœur d’une langueur monotone.
Mais où sont les neiges d’antan?
Autumn leaves? Where did it go?
I wish I spoke French.
The long sobs of the autumn violins
Wound my heart with a monotonous languor.
But where are the snows of Winter?
Autumn equinox is 830 CDT Tuesday. 2020 was one of my favorite summers ever.
Sacre bleu!
You are blessed.
I know so many friends/family who cannot wait for 2020 to end...with all of the crazy ScamDEMic shutdowns, etc.
I think that there have been blessings/opportunities we may have otherwise missed.
Dinah sings......
The leaves of brown came tumbling down
Remember in September in the rain
The sun went out just like a dying amber
That September in the rain
It’s a beautiful song, along with Moonlight in Vermont, September Song, and other beautiful songs.
Zut alors!
Classic I love Gomez and Morticia.
Morticia Addams or Lily Munster?
I was going to mention on Mark’s page that my favorite version of rendition of this is by Eva Cassidy, and then as I scrolled down I saw that he had included hers.
She was gone too soon.
This song has always been one of my favorites. I have never heard Eva’s rendition. But I am old enough to have heard it I guess. In college, we sang a four song performance to Summer:
Summertime, In the good old Summertime, Its Summertime Summertime Sum Sum Summer time, and Summer’s over, the leaves are all following now. Too bad we left Autumn Leaves out.
KC
I loved her rendition. I’ll have to go on YouTube & see what else I can find by Eva Cassidy.
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