There seems to be some military imagery in this song:
'You know that I would turn back just to fight the whites of iron eyes'
''til I heard the distant sound of drums
Oh the queen had come and the King had died'
There seems to be some military imagery in this song:
'You know that I would turn back just to fight the whites of iron eyes'
''til I heard the distant sound of drums
Oh the queen had come and the King had died'
Which suggests to me a soldier possibly in the navy 'a boy at sea'.
Which suggests to me a soldier possibly in the navy 'a boy at sea'.
'Underneath the pine grew a patch of thyme
that I burned for six days in the sun
'til I heard the distant sound of drums'
'Underneath the pine grew a patch of thyme
that I burned for six days in the sun
'til I heard the distant sound of drums'
My interpretation was that the patch of Thyme was grown and burnt to create rescue signals and the 'distant sound of drums' is a group of soldiers.
this song is about being a boy. a young one. no deeper meaning than enjoying your own thought as a boy, which is lovely.
I think it's about a soldier stranded somewhere.
I think it's about a soldier stranded somewhere.
There seems to be some military imagery in this song: 'You know that I would turn back just to fight the whites of iron eyes' ''til I heard the distant sound of drums Oh the queen had come and the King had died'
There seems to be some military imagery in this song: 'You know that I would turn back just to fight the whites of iron eyes' ''til I heard the distant sound of drums Oh the queen had come and the King had died'
Which suggests to me a soldier possibly in the navy 'a boy at sea'.
Which suggests to me a soldier possibly in the navy 'a boy at sea'.
'Underneath the pine grew a patch of thyme that I burned for six days in the sun 'til I heard the distant sound of drums'
'Underneath the pine grew a patch of thyme that I burned for six days in the sun 'til I heard the distant sound of drums'
My interpretation was that the patch of Thyme was grown and burnt to create rescue signals and the 'distant sound of drums' is a group of soldiers.