Evocative acoustic balladeer
Story behind the song
Commentary: Chantile / Who Are You?
This combined song started as “Who Are You?” – a song about a beautiful young girl living in the Outer Hebrides who is constantly turning away the unwanted attention of young men – preferring to wander the lonely shores.
The other part, “Chantile” (which is her name), is the story of the young man who finally won her, but soon lost her to an untimely death…
…she was only seventeen.
I have also recorded “Who Are You?” by itself – as a ballad, and also as an instrumental. Watch for them!
- Alan Kim Cochran
Lyrics
Chantille/Who Are You?
© 2009 Alan Kim Cochran
The winter wind blows cold and gray
Come again some other day
‘Seems as if it’s here to stay
And sorrow, ever after
Chantille was mine, and I was hers
Thistles, thorns and cockleburs!
But by the winter… cold, interred
And sorrow, ever after
She was only seventeen
‘Velvet flower, in the spring
Only death, could come between… us
No happy, ever afters
“Who are…
Who are you?
To say that you… understand?
When you can’t even tell the sea from the sand?”
Do, do, do…
The winter wind blows cold and gray
Come again some other day
‘Seems as if it’s here to stay
And sorrow, ever after
No happy, ever afters
Just sorrow, ever after…
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