{"id":1559,"date":"2005-12-01T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/nickel-creek-stepping-in-for-world-aids-day\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T21:56:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:56:58","slug":"nickel-creek-stepping-in-for-world-aids-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/12\/01\/nickel-creek-stepping-in-for-world-aids-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Nickel Creek stepping in for World Aids Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Well met, well met”, said an old true love.
\n“Well met, well met”, said he.
\n“I have just returned from the salt, salt sea.
\nAnd it’s all for the love of thee.”
\n“Come in, come in, my own true love,
\nAnd have a seat by me.
\nIt’s been three-fourths of a long, long year,
\nSince together, we have been.”<\/p>\n

“I can’t come in and I can’t sit down,
\nFor I’ve only a moment’s time.
\nThey say you’re married to a house carpenter,
\nAnd your heart will never be mine.”<\/p>\n

“I could have married a King’s daughter, fair,
\nAnd she would have married me,
\nBut I have forsaken her crowns of gold,
\nAnd it’s all for the love of thee.”<\/p>\n

“Now you forsake your house carpenter,
\nAnd go along with me.
\nI’ll take you where the grass grows green.
\nOn the banks of the deep blue sea.”<\/p>\n

Then she picked up a darlin’ little babe,
\nAnd kisses, she gave it three.
\nSaying “Stay right here, my dalrin’ little baby,
\nAnd keep your pappa company.”<\/p>\n

They had not been on the ship two weeks,
\nI’m sure it was not three,
\nTill his true love began to weep and to mourn,
\nAnd she wept most bitterly.<\/p>\n

Sayin’: “Are you weepin’ for my silver and my gold.”
\nSayin’: “Are you weepin’ for my store?
\n“Or are you weepin’ for your house carpenter,
\n“Whose face you’ll never see no more?”<\/p>\n

“A curse, a curse to the sailor,” she cried.
\n“A curse, a curse,” she swore.
\n“You robbed me of my darlin’ little babe,
\nThat I shall never see no more.”<\/p>\n

They had not been on the ship three weeks,
\nI’m sure it was not four,
\nWhen there came a leak in the bottom of the ship,
\nAnd sank them for to rise no more.<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/div>\n

When I was in high school we had a vigil. It was years ago today. I wrote, then read a poem, and burned it later that night, in memory of one of the friends I had already lost to AIDS. There had been two others by then, who I had already commemorated in my own way, and three more since then. This song is the closest mix of loss and futility I feel when I ponder their departure. I hope someday there will be a world where nobody knows this feeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Well met, well met”, said an old true love. “Well met, well met”, said he. “I have just returned from the salt, salt sea. And<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","hentry","tag-cold","post_format-post-format-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4132,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/4132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}