Ferron
Ferron, born Deborah Foisy on (1952-06-01) 1 June 1952, is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter and poet. In addition to being one of Canada's most famous folk musicians, she is one of the most influential writers and performers of women's music, and an important influence on later musicians such as Ani DiFranco, Mary Gauthier and the Indigo Girls.
Early life
She learned to play guitar at age 11, and left home at 15. Ferron attended Total Ed, an alternative high school in Vancouver, graduating in 1973 (Thomas 2002). Of her earliest musical memories, she wrote, "my mother's French Canadian family played music. I heard guitars and banjo and accordion and scrub board and my grandfather clogging. I put it together...music meant fun, meant love and laughter. I started writing songs when I was 10, never saved them after some kids at school found them and teased me about it. I wrote songs and remembered them and when I forgot them I felt they were not important anymore. The next time I saved a song I was 18. It was 1970." It was with that first saved song that she made her professional debut in 1975, playing the song "Who Loses" at a benefit for the Women's Press Gang, a feminist publishing house.
Ferron (disambiguation)
Ferron may refer to:
Surnames
Podcasts:
Ferron
ALBUMS
- Impressionistic released: 2000
- Inside Out: The IMA Sessions released: 1999
- Still Riot released: 1996
- Driver released: 1994
- Resting With the Question released: 1992
- Not a Still Life released: 1992
- Phantom Center released: 1990
- Shadows on a Dime released: 1984
- Testimony released: 1981
- Backed Up released: 1978
- Ferron released: 1977
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by Gaslight Anthem
Old Haunts
by: Gaslight AnthemOh Cherry Bomb, you are a mystery
Exploding sparkling quiet nights
My teenage heart pumped all my misery, baby
To fingertips that might ignite
And all along you knew my story, didn't you?
And all night long I carried yours
Your blood was mixed with wine and robbery, baby
And left us always wanting more
So don't sing me your songs about the good times
Those days are gone and you should just let them go
And god help the man who says ["If you'd have known me when..."]
Old haunts are for forgotten ghosts
[(Old haunts are for forgotten ghosts)]
Cherry Bomb, your love is surgery
Removing what you don't regard
And every breath felt like a funeral, baby
While you were packing up your car
And with the window down, I hear you're tired now
You borrowed everything and wore all your old welcomes out
Well, shame on you, my love, you sold your youth away
Memories for sinking ships that never would be saved
So don't sing me your songs about the good times
Those days are gone and you should just let them go
God help the man who says ["If you'd have known me when..."]
Old haunts are for forgotten ghosts
Old haunts are for forgotten ghosts
And shame, shame, shame, shame on you
You kept your mind and heart and youth just like a tomb
Shame, shame, shame, shame on you
You kept your mind and heart and youth just like a tomb
Just like a tomb
Just like a tomb
Just like a tomb
And don't sing me your songs about the good times
Those days are gone and you should just let them go
So god help the man who says ["If you'd have known me when..."]
Old haunts are for all those ghosts
And don't sing me your songs about the good times
Those days are gone and you should just let them go
And god help the man who says ["If you'd have known me when..."]
God help the man who says ["If you'd have known me when..."]
God help this man, oh babe if you'd have known me when