OUGD505: Looking at Indie Folk Lyrics

Laura Marling- Goodbye England (Covered In Snow)

You were so smart then
In your jacket and coat
My softest red scarf was warming your throat
Winter was on us
At the end my nose
And I'll never love England more than when covered in snow

But a friend of mine says it good to hear
That you believe in love even if set in fear
Well I'll hold you there brother and set you straight
I don't really believe true love is frail and willing to break

I will come back here, bring me back when I'm old
I want to lay here forever in the cold
I might be cold but I'm just skin and bones
And I'll never love England more than when covered in snow

I wrote my name in your book
Only God knows why
And I bet you that he cracked a smile
And I'm clearing all the crap out of my room
Trying desperately to figure out what it is that makes me blue
And I wrote an epic letter to you
And it's 22 pages front and back but it's too good to be used
And I tried to be a girl who likes to be used
I'm too good for that, there's a mind under this hat
And I called them all and told them I've got to move

And I'm out on my own
It's too hard
I'm out on my own
It's too hard

Feel like running
Feel like running
Running off

And we will keep you
We will keep you little one
Safe from harm
Like an extra arm you are a part of us

You were so smart then
In your jacket and coat
My softest red scarf was warming your throat

Winter will leave us
Left the end of my nose
Well goodbye old England until next years snow

Mumford & Sons- Sigh No More

Serve God, love me and mend
This is not the end
Lived unbruised, we are friends
And I'm sorry
I'm sorry

Sigh no more, no more
One foot in sea, one on shore
My heart was never pure
You know me
You know me

But man is a giddy thing
Oh man is a giddy thing
Oh man is a giddy thing
Oh man is a giddy thing

Love; it will not betray you
Dismay or enslave you, it will set you free
Be more like the man you were made to be

There is a design, an alignment to cry
Of my heart to see,
The beauty of love as it was made to be

Love; it will not betray you
Dismay or enslave you, it will set you free
Be more like the man you were made to be

There is a design, an alignment to cry
Of my heart to see,
The beauty of love as it was made to be

Love; it will not betray you
Dismay or enslave you, it will set you free
Be more like the man you were made to be

And there is a design, an alignment to cry
Of my heart to see,
The beauty of love as it was made to be

The most obvious thing taken from this song is the title, 'Sigh no more' is connected to the line 'Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more' from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. The song further goes on to further quote from the play, this stanza appears as a song:

'Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more. 

    Men were deceivers ever, 

One foot in sea, and one on shore, 

    To one thing constant never. 

Then sigh not so, but let them go, 

    And be you blithe and bonny, 

Converting all your sounds of woe 

    Into hey nonny, nanny.'

There are many other direct quotes from Much Ado that appear within this song,