"April Come She Will," Simon and Garfunkel
My Music Video Of the Week this week is a song about, well, this month when it comes . . . when streams are ripe and swelled with rain.
John Lennon may have been famous for turning nursery rhymes into song lyrics or whole songs, at least in his psychedelic phase, but Paul Simon was also known to draw inspiration from children's rhymes. For, Sounds of Silence, his second album with Art Garfunkel, Simon concocted a song from a rhyme about the passage of a girl of the months from spring to summer, adding descriptive verses and a reference to September. He gave the result, "April Come She Will," to Garfunkel to sing solo for the album.
"April Come She Will" isn't considered one of Simon's great achievements as a songwriter, but its gentle melody and insular lyrics were a taste of how Simon's songwriting talents would evolve and grow. This performance is from Simon and Garfunkel's 1981 reunion concert in Central Park in NEw York City. Enjoy.
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