Now years-old, she wanders the streets of Brownsville, Tennessee, with a suitcase in her hand in search of her lost lover. Could it be a faded rose from days gone by? And did I hear you say he was a-meeting you here today, to take you to his mansion in the sky? The song spent 17 weeks on the Hot Country Songs chart and peaked in the number six spot. Everyone had fallen asleep except for Harvey. He sat up and strummed his guitar until he felt an overwhelming feeling that his mother was in the room with him.
Nelson, it turned out, had sung back-up on the first recorded version of the song, by one of its writers, Brownsville, Tennessee, native Alex Harvey. His mother wanted to accompany him to the TV studio but he refused, fearing she might embarrass him.
After arriving home from the taping, Harvey was told his mother had died after getting drunk and driving her speeding car into a tree. After Collins woke up and grabbed his guitar, it took the two writers about 20 minutes to finish the song. Coincidentally, later that year he shared a concert bill at L.
Terri Clark would include the song on her covers album, Classic, in a version also featuring Tucker. Tucker is currently working on a long-gestating new album, with its release expected later this year.
Amazing Grace is John Newton's story of salvation. Delta Dawn is a modern day ballad, apparently based on the story of a man's mother's sad ending. A more general interpretation of the song is pretty much what is seen in Great Expectations with the tale of Miss Haversham, jilted by a scoundrel at the alter. Painful to read the stretches reached by some people. Oh, for the one who really stretched the Mary Magdalene part, Mary Magdalene, despite common misconception, was not a prostitute.
She was a wealthy woman who had demons cast from her She has been maligned by many who extrapolate a combination of Mary's and put it on poor Mag's mantel. According to the writer it's about his mother. She lived her life as if she always had a suitcase in her hand and nowhere to set it down. She was considered the prettiest woman in her hometown when she was younger.
Then she met and fell in love with a man of low degree, who promised to marry her then left her. She became an alcoholic. Her alcoholism and search for the man made people think she was crazy. Her son asked her to not go to a performance of his, because he feared she'd get drunk and embarrass him. She died that night in a car wreck that he felt was suicide. He carried guilt for years.
Then one night he said her spirit appeared to him and let him know he wasn't to blame. He then wrote the song in 20 minutes. It's about the writer's mother who committed suicide at It's a eulogy. She is clutching a faded rose as she lies in her coffin. The man she's meeting to take her to "his castle in the sky" is god. The dark haired man is Jesus and comes to her as a man of low degree, like her, common, to make her his bride and take her to his mansion in the sky.
It can't be that Jesus is the dark haired man. The song refers to him as a man of low decree. In reply to:: "It's not really up for debate. The song is about his mother. Tanya Tucker recorded it in
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