Cooksferry Queen

Album: Mock Tudor (1999)
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Songfacts®:

  • The Cook's Ferry Inn in Edmonton is a club that Thompson used to go to in the 1960s. The song is about a thug who gets dosed with acid and adopts the paisley. >>>
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    Brendan - Altamont, NY

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  • Cliveo from LondonThis is a magnificent love song about a local hard man totally in thrall to a young woman, who most likely drank in the Cooks Ferry Inn, Edmonton (at which many bands possibly including Thompson/Fairport) played. The drug references- pills to make him big and small are a reference to Alice in Wonderland and metaphors to the effects on him of her good attention or a harsh word or ignoring him. To the singer the object of his desire wears "dresses that float in the wind" with "Pre-Raphaelite curls in her hair" (she's a hippy, and he would swap his smart clothes for tie-dyed shirts and jeans if she wanted). Even more, he says she can perform New Testament miracles, to the extent "she can make a believer out of me". It is a truly brilliant song.
  • David from Nottingham, United KingdomThe best guitarist in the world today. Watch a dozen of his songs on Youtube and tell me if you disagree!
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