| Song for John Davis | |
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Album |
Songs About Fire |
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Released |
1995 |
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Artist |
the Mountain Goats |
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Length |
1:54 |
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Song for John Davis is the third song on the single Songs About Fire. It was re-released on the compilation Ghana.
Lyrics[]
The day we set sail from England The wind behind us was fair The day we set sail from England There were smiling faces everywhere And the snow came down on New Hampshire today And the snow came down on New Hampshire today The day we put the grain into the ground There were smiling faces all around And underneath the trees we'd planted when we landed And when I was a child I spoke with the language of a child But when I became a man, I put away childish things And the snow came down on New Hampshire today And the snow came down on New Hampshire today
Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]
Things Referenced in this Song[]
- 1 Corinthians 13:11
- John Davis is a musician who sometimes played with the Mountain Goats during the 1990s. [1]
Live Shows this Song Was Played at[]
| Songs About Fire |
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Side One: "Pure Gold" • "Papagallo" |
| Ghana |
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Track list: "Golden Boy" • "Pure Gold" • "Papagallo" • "Song for John Davis" • "Stars Around Her" • "Going to Port Washington" • "Blood Royal" • "The Only Thing I Know" • "Raja Vocative" • "Hatha Hill" • "Going to Kirby Sigston" • "Please Come Home to Hamngatan" • "The Last Day of Jimi Hendrix's Life" • "Orange Ball of Peace" • "Standard Bitter Love Song #8" • "Chino Love Song 1979" • "Wrong!" • "Going to Jamaica" • "Alpha Gelida" • "Wild Palm City" • "The Anglo-Saxons" • "Flight 717: Going to Denmark" • "The Admonishing Song" • "Anti-Music Song" • "Going to Hungary" • "Earth Air Water Trees" • "Creature Song" • "Pure Sound" • "Going to Maine" • "Noctifer Birmingham" • "Leaving Home" |