Today we come to the last two songs on the album.
Track 11 is one of the very best on the record, even though it does not feature a single note of Richard Thompson’s electric guitar. This is the splendid “The Old Changing Way” (3.55), which is accompanied mainly by a harp. This is a super Romany Gypsy piece, which ends like this:
“We never agreed to divide our tin
And when you’re out of love with your brother your hard times begin
For the spikes and the brothels, they are shameful to see
But don’t you travel alone, boys, this warning you take from me
You must share with your nearest ’till [sic] the end of your days
Or else it’s forever you’ll roam the Old Changing Way.”
The last song is “Twisted” (1.58), and again there is an absence of guitar. Still, it is a most fitting cadence to this rather odd record. These are the final words you hear before the album ends:
“”Wo ho I’m sitting at the bar with my face in the jar
And something tells me I’m twisted
Wo ho Sitting [sic] at the bar with my face in the jar
And something tells me I’m twisted.”
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