River Man is in 5/4 time. I couldn't hear it at first. I kept thinking it was 10/8...it's basically a slower river than I was hearing.
This is a nice song to start out August, when the dogs days of summer are upon us. A lazy river song, floating along gently, barely a breeze to send us along. Nick Drake sings mysterious lyrics about a woman named Betty, the change of seasons, the weather, and of course, the river man. It has a pastoral Wind in the Willows aspect to it, as if we should expect to see Mole and Ratty passing by in a tiny rowboat. Featuring a nice string arrangement by Harry Robertson, this is taken from the Five Leaves Left album.
A couple years later...now I think it is 10/8, not 5/4.
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