Here are Tommy James and the Shondells doing "Crimson and Clover." You may, if you wish, speculate on what the words mean in the comments section. They have been rather adequately symbolically explicated by various writers, and the most convincing explanation, to my mind, is that the song is about sex, specifically sex with a younger woman, indeed, a virgin, the word "crimson" referring to the blood that is spilled during that act, and the "clover" referring to the clover field where they met. The word "clover" simultaneously refers to the female private parts. In this way the song has depth of meaning that unconsciously added to its becoming one of the most popular songs of the 60s. (Recorded in 2000 at the Bitter End, Greenwich Village, New York City.)
Saturday, December 12, 2009
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