Down in the valley

Notes on the song:

I love the sound of the man and woman's voices dueting in the recording that was given to us.  I find the entire song incredibly relaxing despite it essentially being about heartbreak.  I especially love the quiet dinging of something in the background, unclear if this is meant to be the sound of a train, and if it is, unclear if it is intentional or not (since we have talked about old recordings picking up on natural background sounds).  "Hang your head over, hear the wind blow"- I've done this. I just imagine resting my head on the window of a car and hearing and feeling the wind pass by. It's an incredibly sensory lyric. Also, wind is one of my favorite things.  

On my piece for this week:

I imagined being in the mountains, in the woods, and just envisioned an ominous scene.  In my mind, the jail in the song is Down in the Valley, in the foreboding woods.  Up the mountain is a woman waiting for a response to her question - "Will you be mine?"