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Go Your Own Way Love
Go Your Way
[Anne Briggs]
Anne Briggs wrote this song for her 1971 Topic album, Anne Briggs, “because I wasn't seeing enough of someone”. Like all tracks from this album it was reissued on her two compilations Classic Anne Briggs and A Collection. It was also included on the anthologies New Electric Muse II and A Woman's Voice. She also recorded it with Bert Jansch in 1993 with the title Go Your Way My Love for the BBC Scotland documentary about Bert Jansch, Acoustic Routes:
Sandy Denny recorded this song with somewhat different verses as Go Your Own Way Love as a home demo in Winter 1968. It was released in 1989 on the cassette The Attic Tracks Vol. 3, in 2004 on the Fledg'ling anthology A Boxful of Treasures, and again in 2010 on CD 12 (“The Early Home Demos”) of the Sandy Denny Box Set. She also recorded another song of Anne Briggs, The Time Has Come, and wrote The Pond and the Stream for her.
Hannah Sanders sang Go Your Way on her 2015 album Charms Against Sorrow.
Julie Fowlis sang Go Your Way in 2017 on her album Alterum.
Alasdair Roberts, Neil McDermott and Tartine de Clous sang Go Your Way on their 2018 CD Au Cube.
Kitty McFarlane sang Go Your Way in 2019 on Topic's 80th year anthology, Vision & Revision. She noted:
Anne Briggs apparently wrote this beautiful song ‘because she wasn't seeing enough of someone’. She transports you with so few words—it is gentle, unfussy and still.
This video shows Kitty singing Go Your Way at the Beardy Folk Festival at Hopton Court, Shropshire, in June 2018:
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss sang Go Your Way on their 2021 album Raise the Roof. They sing “Cooking daily for you I do prepare” instead of Anne's “Looking…”.
Lyrics
Anne Briggs sings Go Your Way | Sandy Denny sings Go Your Own Way Love | |
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Drawing water from the well |
Drawing water from the well | |
And as I wander through the trees |
And as I wander through the trees | |
And may the west wind speed your travels | ||
Friends and strangers bring stories | ||
And as I sit mending clothes |
As I sit mending your clothes | |
Is there walking some far land | ||
(repeat first verse) |
Drawing water from the well |
Acknowledgements
Transcribed from Anne Briggs' singing by Wolfgang Hell and Sandy Denny's verses by Reinhard Zierke.