Song To The Siren

The velvet underground live lp.

Song to the siren. Also released on plant s best of compilation sixty six to timbuktu. Monkees tv show 1968 long afloat on shipless oceans i did all my best to smile til your singing eyes and fingers drew me loving to your isle and you sang. From the 2002 album dreamland a beautiful version of the tim buckley classic. Song to the siren is a song written by tim buckley and his writing partner larry beckett and was released by buckley on his 1970 album starsailor.

Sinead o connor song to the siren tim buckley. It was also later released on morning glory. Songs to the siren. Song to the siren was released in 1970 on the album starsailor.

On the floating shipless oceans i did all my best to smile til your singing eyes and fingers drew me loving to your isle and you sang sail to me sail to me. Version of the velvet underground s sweet jane the song s writer lou reed has apparently gone on record as saying that this take by canadian alternative country band cowboy junkies was his favourite. Subscribe to 4ad here. Though his original author is tim buckley it is well known to have been covered by numerous artists including robert plant.

This cover is based on the version from the 1969. The tim buckley anthology the album featuring a performance of the song taken from the final episode of the monkees tv show which aired on march 25 1968.