(drink up baby, look at the stars)

on the way down to staunton, i played every version of Between the Bars i have on my ipod. I had one from To: Elliott, From: Portland by a girl named Amelia, and Chris Garneau's version and then the Original from Either/Or and the string quartet version by Vitamin. It's a good lineup, the takes are subtly different so that it's not like listening to the same track on repeat, but they're all saying more or less the same thing (...).

While we were waiting for the play to begin today the cast was standing on the balcony playing folksy covers. You may be expecting this by now, but it was a surprise to me at the time when Poins/The Earl of Douglas launched into a rendition of Between the Bars. It wasn't perfect, but it's the thought that counts, and something about seeing people dressed in Elizabethan garb playing minstrel-y instruments made it special.

Since i've been home i downloaded metric's acoustic take. I'll be on the lookout for others as well.

drink up one more time
and I'll make you mine.
keep you apart
deep in my heart.
separate from the rest
where I like you the best
and keep the things you forgot