1000 SONGS - DAY 113: SONG # 143

Day 113: Some songs about relationships featuring the one and only Sally Timms

When thinking about a song that would fit neatly into the category "Wedding Songs" the rare 12" by a side project of the long-time Mekons' vocalist, Sally Timms and the Drifting Cowgirls that features a duet with Marc Almond came to my mind. This will be the last song in this post, as I will start with Sally's renditions of a song that has been sung by Johnny Cash:

This song is taken from the first record of the man in black and written by him: Cry! Cry! Cry! Sally changes the rhythm of the original, but she does not change gender-roles, as she also has neither done on her rendering of the Rolling Stones Macho-Anthem "Heart of Stone" nor on her version of "Long Black Veil" (a song also recorded by Johnny Cash and covered by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on "Kicking Against the Pricks"):

Here is the bonus track (the one that has nothing to do with petty individual relationships, but with world politics), the Mekons' Ghost of American Astronauts, what a great song (w/ lyrics):

Up in the hills above Bradford
Outside the Napalm factory
(They're floating above us)
Ghosts of American Astronauts
Glow in the headlights beam

It's just a small step for him
It's a nice break from Vietnam
(Filmed in a factory)
Out on the back lot in Houston
Who says the world isn't flat

A flag flying free in a vacuum
Nixon sucks a dry Martini
Ghosts of American astronauts
Stay with us in our dreams

John Glenn drinks cocktails with God
In a cafe in downtown Saigon
(High above them)
Ghosts of American Astronauts
Are drifting too close to the sun

A flag flying free in a vacuum
Nixon sucks a dry Martini
Ghosts of American astronauts
Stay with us in our dreams

And, finally, one of the best renderings of "quarreling husband and wife" ever, "this house is a house of trouble":