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The Pond and the Stream

[Sandy Denny]

Sandy Denny’s song The Pond and the Stream is supposedly about the folk singer Anne Briggs renowned for her gypsy-like lifestyle. Two of her songs were recorded by Sandy as home demos, The Time Has Come and Go Your Own Way Love.

Sandy Denny and Fotheringay recorded The Pond and the Stream at the Sound Techniques Studios in spring 1970. This track was released in the same year on their only album, Fotheringay, and was included on Sandy Denny’s anthologies Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (1986), The Best of Sandy Denny (1987), No More Sad Refrains (2000), and A Boxful of Treasures (2004). It was also included on the 3 CD anthology The New Electric Muse Vol. II.

A Sandy Denny studio demo of The Pond and the Stream, accompanied on guitar, was included in 2015 on Fotheringay’s Universal anthology Nothing More.

Cover Versions

The Julie July Band on their CD Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (July 2018)

Lyrics

Sandy Denny sings The Pond and the Stream

Annie wanders on the land.
She loves the freedom of the air.
She finds a friend in ev’ry place she goes.
There’s always a face she knows.
I wish that I was there.

She says, “I’m leaving here tomorrow
To find a new town far away.”
She says, “Won’t you come too? You need a break.
You love to wake up somewhere new
And find another day.”

But I live in the city
And imagine country scenes.
For among the rich,
Within four walls and out of reach,
I live behind the screen.

She smiles as one who loves to smile,
To show that she is free.
But is she thinking now it’s time
To wander back again,
To see her friends and me?

We all live in the city
And imagine country scenes,
For among the rich,
Within four walls and out of reach,
We live behind a screen.

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