454 – Donovan – Josie (1965)

A última música a ser publicada no ano de 2015. Agora só em 2016. Escrita por Donovan, foi lançada em 14 de maio de 1965, no disco de estréia dele chamado What's Bin did and what's Bin hid. Foi lançada também em 18 de fevereiro de 1966 em um compacto que tinha The ittle tin soldier como Lado B.

A letra:

Josie, I wont fail ya,
I wont fail you have no fear,
Josie, I wont fail ya,
Give me one more chance to be as near.

The meadows they are bursting
the yellow corn is in your hands,
and with the night comes sorrow
as the tide of dawn slips on the land.

The long breezes are blowing
all down the sky into my face,
I've a worried kind of feelin
that my time has come and gone to waste.

I love you darling Josie,
the trees of pine they grow so tall,
how can you come to love me
when you didn't love me at all.

Josie, I wont fail ya,
I wont fail you have no fear,
Josie I wont fail ya
Give me one more chance to be as near.

My Josie looks a child now
as she lies beyond my breast,
in the night I think about her
in the day I get no rest.

I cut me a young pine cone
And gave it to the river deep,
It sailed way by your window
where you lay so long in sleep.

God bless you darling Josie
with your sparkling eyes so bright and clear,
Josie, I wont fail you have no fear,
Josie, I wont fail ya
Give me one more chance to be as near.

Josie com Donovan, original:

Cover de Pete Holm:

Cover de Mac MacLeod: