Who Knows Where the Time Goes?

let me take a little dawn
to sing for Sandy Denny,
sweet baby gone.

let me thank you darling
for Tam Lin in St. Louis
three years ago.

life is still here for you
your voice mingles with my breath
frosting on good cake

who know where the time goes, darling?
you do. you do.


Sandy Denny, lead singer for Fairport Convention at various times, died of a brain hemorrhage in her early thirties in approximately 1977. I saw her at the Fox Theatre on Grand Avenue in St. Louis and she was remarkable in every way. She sang, among other things, the ancient brit folk song, "Tam Lin", one of my favorites, while Dave Swarbrick danced his ass off, with an unfiltered cigarette hangin from his lip. She authored, among many other songs, the piece, Who Knows Where the Time Goes, that gives the Judy Collins' album its name. Even today I will think of that lyric and shake my head.