Tom Rush - The Child's Song, from DVD "How I Play (some of) My Favorite Songs"
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Tom Rush (tomrush.com) sings Murray McLaughlin's "Child's Song" - from the Homespun DVD "Tom Rush: How I Play (some of) My Favorite Songs" available from
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Hi Gang,
I’m embarking on yet another a new adventure, a series of weekly online offerings - kitchen-table videos of songs and stories and more. Since they’ll be coming out of my kitchen in Rockport, Mass, I thought I’d call them “Rockport Sundays”, after that instrumental I recorded way back when.
I hope you will join me.
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This song made me cry when I first heard it many, many years ago. I was about 19-ish and ready to leave home. Now I'm 54 and my son is where I was then...
when my son left for boot camp, I cried my eyes out listening to this song over... and over.. .and over... The I remembered when I first heard it - when I left my folks' house in '74... Thanks Tom....
A year ago this week I lost my wonderful Dad, aged just 68. I wish we’d had more time together, but I will always be grateful he was in my life. I miss him everyday
I am glad that my brother SK sent this to me. I smell my daughter's hair and tell her I love her all the time, especially when we listen to music like this. It speaks for itself. Thanks to you brother...and all of you listening...
Simply one of my favorite songs of all time. Played it and cried buckets as I left my parents' home to move and get married in 1976. Thanks, Tom, for this heartbreakingly beautiful rendition.
I just saw him play this last night, 8/14/09, at the Philadelphia Folk Festival and he was fantastic! Such a beautiful song performed by such a great artist!
Yes! You must be my age because I started college in 1973. I have a son who will be 18 in March. This song soooooooo suits him. It had significance for me then and now.
Certainly one of Murray's finest compositions!
I have always loved this song and all the others from the original album…... And although I don’t believe in bucket lists, seeing Tom perform live would be on it. … and then it happened…at the Dakota Music venue in Minneapolis in 2017. Thanks Tom!
Tom Rush is the most consistently excellent performer we know. We have seen him perform probably 30 or 35 times since 1971 - always good company with good songs and gentle humor.
heart-wrenching
still sounds great. Have not listened to it in a while. Thank you Tom.
WOW
This performance is as powerful as the one I heard so many years ago on WBCN, when I was younger than the singer. This song ranks right up there among the best of all time
This song never loses its appeal and its relevance.
Beautiful song. Tom Rush does a great job singing and playing this song.
Success is fleeting, talent is everlasting, anyone who has not bought Toms new album "What I know" is missing out on more of the same from this truly gifted songsmith. Anyone living stateside, you dont know how lucky you are to be able to get to a concert. I would love the chance to see him unfortunately there is a rather large pond between Ireland and the states stopping me at the moment. Teddy O'Neill Dublin.
Been a fan of Tom's since "Panama Limited". Here's a nice rendition of a song by Canada's Murray McLaughlin. Thanks...bob
That final step into uncertainty was sooo long ago! A world awaits
Bought all Tom's albums on vinyl back in the 60's ... had to replace those with 8 track when media shifted ... replaced those with cassette then on to CD's ... all part of the circle game!!! Tom, please come back to Michigan so I can see you in concert before the game ends. Love you man!!!
By the way ... just received the DVD that this song is posted from ... what a treasure to be able to sit and watch Tom teach and talk about days gone by. Thanks!
Chin Music same here
I love this song. Love, love, love it! It reminds me of Dylan's I was Young When I Left Home but I love this song more.
nice guitar
great song
I love this song, i fell myself welling up just writing this.
I am not joking that was emotional and heart touching I am definitely liking thanks for the song
NPR interviewed Tom Rush today. First time I've heared the song, but very appropriate for graduation time
This song is mint !!!!
Love, love, love it!!! Thank you for sharing!
That acoustic guitar sound is amazing. I want that guitar ;-) This is a lovely song, really like it..
Oh I love this song, thanks so much!
just saw him live in Minneapolis. could have heard a pin drop when he did this as his last song. not a dry eye in the hall.
This is so sweet, God man! *Tear rushing to my eye*
You know, another song about leaving home, much less cerebral, but along the same line was "Sugar Mountain" by Neil Young. Both these guys are icons in my mind. Tom Rush deserves more credit than he gets.
Going to see him tonight
i wrote out the lyrics, and left them for my mother the day i moved out of her house. 1971, i think it was.
@SCLOGSE I'm glad you're still here to write about it today.
He's probably pretty well aware of the oringinal. We'll give Tom Rush licence to make adjustments on how he feels about the subject matter, especially a song of this nature, especially after 40 years of reflection. And I'm not so sure that this song can be played too many times.
Great stuff
5****big stars....Mel
He proved that less is best
good one
Thanks. My favorite is your version of "The Circle Game"
I've made it to sixty seven. I've lost my Mom and my Dad, and my sweet ladies' Mom and Dad. This song still brings me to tears of sadness and joy, and longing. Missing them. I want to hold them. I miss them. This song holds magic and brings them to my arms. Thank you Tom.
Hi Tom. This is beautiful and how old is that Martin - 70yrs?
Met you several times in U.K. clubs 40 years ago. You're looking great! Can you post 'Joshua gone Barbados' sometime?
Be well
Andrew
I cannot find the picking pattern on this song...would you share it with us??
that must have been a heavy moment then... CHeers:)
were could i find the tabs of this beutiful song?
Looks like the Boston show is a go. December 28 2013...Do you get his news letter?
watching the video closely is probably the best way to get it accurately. looks like a bunch of C G F and Am variations to me -- not too bad. maybe google it? good luck
I've loved this man's music for 40 years but it appears he's sung this song one too many times. Check out the original version.
You say Lady Gaga, I say The Doors
You say Hannah Montana, I say The Rolling Stones
You say Owl City, I say Led Zeppelin
You say Jonas Brothers, I say The Beatles
You say Justin Bieber, I say Queen
You say Taylor Swift, I say AC/DC
95% of teens these days listen to the same crappy pop over and over again. If you're one of the 5% who still listens to real music, thumb this up, then copy & paste it to at least five videos. Don't let real music die!
Bought this album in 70, that and ,these days were my favorite songs
No matter how much time passes, Tom Rush always sings and plays this song so well. This piece also displays his great delivery on the guitar.
Keep on truckin', Tom! (Did I really say that?)
Patty-o.....:-)
I can't find luthier in Webster's New Universal Unabridged dictionary (copyright 1994), and maybe you're just spelling it wrong because I have heard the word, but I thought a luthier was the last guy on the line. When I went to the Gibson plant in Memphis, the tour guy really referred to the guy at the end, stringing it, tuning it, playing it., jamming. All of these guys are good musicians and good guitarists. Can you imagine that gig?1 Anyway, I'll investigate it more. Thanks for your comment.
Tom Rush does an absolutely incredible job on this beautiful song. The song was written by a gentleman by the name of Murray Maclauchlan,
who like me, just happens to be a Canadian!!
It's too bad that there is not a clip on here of this song being sung by Murray.........
I once read, that this song is one of Tom's favourites. And indeed, it's a great melancholic and beautiful tune. But on the same original lp as 'Child's Song' there is another one called 'Old Man's Song', which is from the same composer, Murray McLaughlin. I think, that this is an even greater tune. Tom's version of it is a masterpiece.
I love this song! Makes me cry thinking about my mom who's been gone over a year now. A friend once told me how she cried when I left home. Mom prepared me for it though!
Tom Rush.
I'll say it again Tom Rush.
Just not heard enough.
sounds like a kid going to Nam
Always played this song to my kids the night they left home for college. Been a fan of Tom since the 1960's 🤟
Tom Rush wrote a hauntingly beautiful guitar instrumental called Rockport Sunday in a funcky open chord tuning. Someone PLEASE do a cover of this song...maybe fretkiller. I've found only two covers and they're only partials.
Priceless, Tom ! nearly as good as Black Bush Irish Whiskey!
Very touching.
Took my new Martin & backpack and left a letter to my mom & dad in the mail box. Hitched from Mass. to the Big Sur. Surely broke her heart - but I was 18 and burning to live. Wish I could have talked to them about it. That was 1967, 18 mos later I was a medic in II Corps Vietnam. Hug your kids and smell their hair and tell them you love them. (glad you made in home, too Sarge! Happy Memmorial Day to you. Doc Tom
wow, just listened this and it sounded like a kid going to war then read this piece. that's deep brotha. RESPECT
Fabulous song and a fantastic performer. Tom is living proof that the baby boomers had the best music and the Internet is the great equalizer to prove it. One million hits on his "Remember" song. He's the best!
In 1970 when I was a senior in high school I needed a way to go to college. I did a desperate thing and joined the Marine Corps. My father got angry and my mother cried. A friend lent me the Tom Rush album and I heard this song. I taped it on my Dad's reel-to-reel the day I left for Paris Island. Two years later when I came home from Viet Nam, my Dad played it for me and told me it was one of his favorites. A shock for he loved only Classical.
Tom has brought out a dvd on how he plays most of his good songs and its available to buy on his website. Its very easy to follow and as Tom tells you he never learned guitar in the usual way, just by ear mostly, so there is hope for everyone. Log on and buy the dvd now and while you are at it, order his new cd, its brillant.
Teddy O'Neill Dublin
This song by Tom inspired me to go to Woodstock and hit the road and find life. He is one of the most talented song interpreters I found in my life. He gave me Joni Mitchell, James Taylor & Murray Mclaughlin before I knew who they were. He was a beautiful, fresh faced young man who looked like all my friends at the time. Now he looks like all my beautiful experienced friends I still love dearly today. Bless you, Tom.
I stumbled upon this touching, truthful song while looking for another...yes, it moved me deeply, too. I'll learn it for my mom's 88th birthday in August. The song and words are ageless. Banjo Jim
this is a wonderful song that is "Timeless"... to all parents and their children when they grow up.
It ain't difficult to understand how/why these tunes stay in us for so long.
Played this over and over again when my son left for boot camp....
This was just awe inspiring to watch. Love your picking, style.
He has! This is an instructional DVD - go and buy it!
Tom makes the guitar sing, and oh the voice, magic.
Great performance of a great song....Mike
makes me wanna cry...in a good way