Words of Warning from Joan Baez + Starfucker covers Cyndi Lauper

[iamom]

I just read this lyric in a recent issue of Lapham's Quarterly and thought it was great. From "Silver Dagger," a traditional American ballad from the 1930s that Joan Baez covered in the 60s, apparently.Don't sing love sounds, you'll wake my mother

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[dizziedumb]

That's a bummer, man.

I'm only familiar with Old Crow Medicine Show's Silver Dagger, which is every but as sad as what I've read here.

[grammardog]

Dolly Parton did a nice cover of Silver Dagger on her album The Grass Is Blue a few years ago: