Monday, August 31, 2026

"Mary Won't You Warm My Bed"

I listened to One Year yester-day and noticed two small features in the line "But I never could forget the day she gave me all her love" in "Mary Won't You Warm My Bed."  "Love" is held longer than the preceding words, and it's sung with a melisma (C# B).  Both of these qualities lend a sense of the extent of "all."