Every artist gets their influence from somewhere else .. someone previous. This is what I love about passing it down. In my opinion, Peter Paul and Mary do a very fine reverence of old folk music. I have yet to see a better threesome.
Fall, 1966, I was a homesick college freshman a long way from home trying to pass engineering courses and having a tough time doing so. Liked to listen to this song in the afternoon when I got back from class, with that long straight blond hair Mary was every college boy's dream girl in the 60s
This song just touches me, I'm in a moment in my life where this song really just says what I'm going through and it speaks for me. I just feel attached to this song now.
My dad turned me onto Peter, Paul and Mary --- he used to play and sing this song; it is a beautiful tune and is performed so perfectly that it makes me weep with nostalgia!