Thank you. I adore Joan Baez and have seen her in concert several times. The last time she sang this classic, she changed the last line to, "So, if you're offering me diamonds and rust, I'll take the diamonds." My husband thought it was a material thing, but I think it's more about changing how we feel about the past. Too bad she never caught on the way Bob Dylan did. Joan Rooch
I'm a woman, a Witch, a mother, a grandmother, an eco-feminist, a gardener, a reader, a writer, and a priestess of the Great Mother Earth. Hecate appears in the
Homeric Ode to Demeter, which tells of Hades who caught Persophone
"up reluctant on his golden car and bare her away lamenting. . . . But no one, either of the deathless gods or of mortal men, heard her voice, nor yet the olive-trees bearing rich fruit: only tenderhearted Hecate, bright-coiffed, the daughter of Persaeus, heard the girl from her cave . . . ."
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Thank you. I adore Joan Baez and have seen her in concert several times. The last time she sang this classic, she changed the last line to, "So, if you're offering me diamonds and rust, I'll take the diamonds." My husband thought it was a material thing, but I think it's more about changing how we feel about the past. Too bad she never caught on the way Bob Dylan did.
Joan Rooch
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