Joan Baez - So We’ll Go No More A-Roving [HD]

Joan Baez sings ’So We’ll Go No More A-Roving’ from her 1964 Vanguard album ’Joan Baez/5’. The song is from a poem written in 1817 by Lord Byron; Richard Dyer-Bennet added text in a 1955 recording of the song. On the album, Baez does vocal and guitar while David Soyer plays cello and Gino Foreman plays guitar. The song lyrics are in the video and listed below. Wikipedia describes Lord Byron’s poem as follows: It evocatively describes the fatigue of age conquering the restlessness of youth. Byron wrote the poem at the age of twenty-nine. In the letter [containing the poem] to Thomas Moore, the poem is preceded by an account of its genesis. “At present, I am on the invalid regimen myself. The Carnival--that is, the latter part of it, and sitting up late o’ nights--had knocked me up a little. But it is over--and it is now Lent, with all its abstinence and sacred music... Though I did not dissipate much upon the whole, yet I find ’the sword wearing out the scabbard,