![]() He had also changed the lyrics a little bit: He got a phone call from Billy after a couple of months, he said that he was going to play and dedicate the song to the little girl. In 2008 a father who had lost his little girl in a battle with a nasty childhood cancer wrote an email to the organisers of the Glastonbury festival telling about how Bragg’s song had helped him dealing with his grief, and said it would mean a lot to him if Billy would sing it at his Sunday night show at the festival. So more often than not these days I find myself playing it at gigs, because more people are getting to the age where we’re losing loved ones, so it’s become a really important part of my set now.” It had the same effect on me it helped me to deal with losing somebody. And I’m really glad when I find someone who it’s helped because I can tell them – honestly – it helped me too. ![]() And I got it down on paper and looked at it and thought, “D’ya know what? If I sing this song, I will have to talk about what happened.”Īnd I went and showed it to teach to my keyboard player to show her part, and she said, “Wow, that’s about your dad, isn’t it?”Īnd I thought if she gets it, anyone will get it, and it obviously works as a song. Until I’d written that song, I’d never spoken to anyone about my father dying, which was something I couldn’t face.Īnd I wrote that, and it just came out in a huge flood. It’s on Don’t Try This At Home so it’s about that time. ” My father passed away in 1976, and before I wrote that song, oh, I’m guessing now, in 1991. In an interview with the blog Timber and Steel, Billy Bragg said: Walking On A Wire by Richard and Linda Thompson Check out more in our series of The Saddest Songs:
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