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Collins re-recorded "Chelsea Morning" for her 1999 retrospective double-album release Forever: An Anthology. Chelsea Clinton, daughter of President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, was named after the song, "Chelsea Morning", after the couple heard Judy Collins' version of the song playing during a stroll in the Chelsea neighborhood of London. [5]
The line "They took all the trees, and put 'em in a tree museum / And charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em" refers to Foster Botanical Garden in downtown Honolulu, which is a living museum of tropical plants, some rare and endangered. [4] [5] In the song's final verse, the political gives way to the personal.
John Holt covered the song on his 1973 reggae album 1000 Volts of Holt'. Emmy award-winning Faith Rivera released a ukulele version of the song on her 2005 album "Suncatcher" David Gray, a British singer-songwriter, released the song on his 2007 live album A Thousand Miles Behind; Sabrina Starke, a Dutch singer, released a single version in 2014.
"Early in the Morning" is a song by British band Vanity Fare, released as a single in June 1969. It became an international hit and was awarded a gold disc for sales over one million. The song reached number 8 on the UK Singles Chart . [ 1 ]
Dating back to at least the mid-20th century, the song is sung to the tune of "The Old Gray Mare". [1] The song, especially popular in school lunchrooms and at summer camps, presents macabre horrors through cheerful comedy while allowing children to explore taboo images and words especially as they relate to standards of cleanliness and dining.
It has been suggested that “it’s raining. It’s pouring” is a metaphor for alcohol liberally flowing. The old man gets drunk causing him to bump his head. It has further been suggested that the verse is a "classic description" of a head injury ("bumped his head"), followed by a lucid interval and an inability to resume normal activity ("couldn't get up in the morning"). [7]
Early One Morning" (Roud V9617) is an English folk song with lyrics first found in publications as far back as 1787. [1] A broadside ballad sheet in the Bodleian Library , Oxford, dated between 1828 and 1829 [ 2 ] has the title "The Lamenting Maid" and refers to the lover leaving to become a sailor.
The Pozo-Seco Singers also released a single of the song in 1967, as did Episode Six in the U.K. [20] British pop singer Lulu recorded a version of "Morning Dew" for her album Love Loves to Love Lulu, produced by John Paul Jones, in 1967, and this was released as a single in the US, [21] Canada (#55 [22]), and Australia in 1968.