Mother Dear

Album: Barclay James Harvest (1972)
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Songfacts®:

  • This John Lees composition is described by the June 1992 issue of the fanzine Nova Lepidoptera as "a gothic tale of ghostly apparitions in the night" dating back to 1967. It was originally recorded with honky-tonk barroom piano, which, unsurprisingly, was not considered appropriate.

    It sounds more like a middle-of-the-road track than the progressive rock with which Barclay James Harvest has been associated from its inception. >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England

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