Its melody comes from the ballad "Lord Franklin", which he learned from Martin Carthy in London.
The words
A dreamer longs for the lost days of youthful friendship before the world got complicated.
Riding a train, the singer falls asleep and dreams of an old room where he and his friends once sat together by a fire, talking, laughing and certain they would never grow old. As the song goes on, the dream gives way to the knowledge that those friends have scattered and the easy certainty is gone. He ends by saying he would give anything to sit in that room once more. It is a gentle, wistful song set to an old ballad melody.
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The words
A dreamer longs for the lost days of youthful friendship before the world got complicated.
Riding a train, the singer falls asleep and dreams of an old room where he and his friends once sat together by a fire, talking, laughing and certain they would never grow old. As the song goes on, the dream gives way to the knowledge that those friends have scattered and the easy certainty is gone. He ends by saying he would give anything to sit in that room once more. It is a gentle, wistful song set to an old ballad melody.
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