A Woman's Looks (Jones 1600 i
This is maybe the only recording of this you will find. This is the 1st song in the 1st Booke of Robert Jones and but for this recording I don't know of any other recording of this song.
Elisha Zaporelostzi's first performances were the Open Stages put on by the Bytown Live in Ottawa Ontario, Canada. It is how Neil Young and Joni Mitchell started.
Phreap magazine is a one page thing that went around Ottawa in the 1980s. Now it is a web site;
http://home.att.ne.jp/blue/patchan
With the help of Joe-Charly Smith, Molly Ding, Calhoon-Fred Febealie, and Butter Jones I was able to put out Phreap magazine.
Story behind the song
I guess for students of Robert Jones it would be nice to start with the 1st song in the 1st Booke. This has not been easy for me. My early 2002 recording went OK as far as the 1st Stanza, as most of my recordings do. It was not until 2006 that I sang the 2nd stanza along with Mr. Harald Lillmeyer midi file. I am sorry Harald one can do a lot better with your wonderful midi files than what I have done here. For the 3rd stanza I reached back to my slow cassette recording from 1987. This is just me singing to guitar in Canada. Thus this recording is 19 years and 3 countries in the making.
1987 - 2006
1st Stanza Funabashi City, Japan
Guitar January 4, 2002
keyboard January 4, 2002
main vocal March 28, 2002
2nd Stanza - August 31,2006 - Sang in Urayasu City & with a midi file made in Germany by Harald Lillmeyer.
you can do a lot better with Harald's midi files
3rd Stanza Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
October 5, 1987 - me singing to guitar
Lyrics
I. A WOMAN'S LOOKS
A woman's looks
Are barbed hooks,
That catch by art
The strongest heart,
When yet they spend no breath,
But let them speak,
And sighing break
Forth into tears,
Their words are spears
That wound our souls to death.
The rarest wit
Is made forget,
And like a child
Is oft beguiled,
With Love's sweet seeming bait:
Love with his rod
So like a god
Commands the mind
We cannot find.
Fair shows hide foul deceit.
Time, that all things
In order brings,
Hath taught me now
To be more slow,
In giving faith to speech:
Since women's words
No truth affords,
And when they kiss
They think by this
Us men to over reach.
