I like to think this is one of my husband's favorites. He met me when I was a laundry girl. Though we've had similar quarrels, our end is happier than that of the couple in the song. He plays this often. (I love him to pieces.)

O...the memories...still sore...thank u 4 ur music

Still remembered in 2021.

So many great versions, this among other discussed at www.salutlive.com/2021/01/cover-story-56-the-dimming-of-the-day-richard-linda-thompson-alison-krauss-bonnie-raitt-.html. Mary Black just edges it for me

Love/Liebe

A truly gifted man...doing everything I ever dreamed of..I can't sing and play at the same time..🎸🎵💕and Richard paints a picture with his words too.Genius. ❤

Run,Run ,Run,Run,Run away. You're a psycho killer,better...Run,Run,Run,Run,Run away

Privileged to have been there from over the pond. It was 1983, my first Cropredy. My friend Lee Williams and I managed to get up close for both the Richard Thompson Band gig, which headlined Friday night, and also the next evening for Fairport. We also had a fantastic time taking in the Fairport rehearsal gig a couple of days earlier at the Half Moon in Putney. For a fervent Fairport fan like me, who as an American had never really had an inkling he’d get a chance to see the band live, it was a surreal delight, a dream realized.

pegg with a Hofner!!!!

Beautiful.

I believe Linda Thomson was/is Scottish.

The most beautiful sad love song.

"I came to you when no one could hear me I'm sick and weary of being alone"

I spent Xmas with an old friend. Really need her company it's been a hard year. She gone back on the road now. Played this just after she left. Just played it again. Can't stop the tears

I could listen to this all day....

Me-74/745 ish-Little Featsssss/Doooobies etc-This gal(you-Raitt??)-BEAUTIFUL/GIFTED /TALENT LOL

Artistic license, HRD Vincent did not have keys, Black Lightning was a track bike no MOT. This being said this is far and away the best motorcycle love ballad of all time. Mr. Thompson is one of the best players of all time. I defy any Ton up Boy, Cafe Racer, or any tipe of bike rider to listen this without shedding a tear. One last word for Mr. Thompson, Nortons will do !

That singer has my favorite voice. And I love RT

A beautiful song beautifully sung

Heard it for the first time a few weeks back and I loved it like my lost love.Brilliant stuff.

I really don't like his other songs that much but this one knocks me on my ass.

"I miss her more than ever words could say"

Extraordinary!

Great video, I’ve never seen this one.

For everyone who relates to this For everyone who's been there For Christy and for Richard Thank you for this song . Thank s to everyone who said they liked it. Thanks to anyone who ever plays this in a bar if I am not there to buy the round. This song tell me I am not the only one who has these feelings. I needed to know that. Losers die alone. Losing love does not make you a loser just human ! A million have been there before a million more will follow. Thank you Richard !

If Willie and Waylon were desperados of country , RT is the deperado of the world. numero #1

That earthly loving voice that tells the story we all live from time to time; she shares with us to ease the pain... Love to you hon

Something in my eye, dammit...

A genius,

one of the Most beautiful songs ever Sing b great Artist s

The first time I heard this song was on a Mary Black DVD. I formed and shed the thickest tears ever. I cried for 5 days!! Single and bashed and bruised. It reminded me of when my 8 year boyfriend married someone else. I waited and they divorced but but but can’t go back to him older. Shame. For years I thought I needed him.

It’s close to 40 years since I first heard this song - and it still blows me away

Who the fuck gave this thumbs down? What is wrong with you?

One of the greatest story songs ever written. His understated guitar combined with an incredible story add up to an experience that can draw tears from me at times.

A very sad loss to us all.

This song breaks my heart everytime. Maybe I'll listen again..

Richard & Linda Thompson are the best duo ever. Nothing will change my mind.

🐺 Wolfie said hokie pokie. Lol

Fun cover version: de-film.com/v-video-OJ9zMcH-yjs.html

Brilliant, what a great guy. Probably wouldn't be able to get a job teaching now. 16mm transferred to video? Any further information would be delightful, thanks.

This might just be the best thing she ever wrote. Wonderful lyrics.

what a voice

This song belongs to MM - no one else should be allowed to sing it.

Brilliant.

chills

Hard to believe how anyone could thumbs down this song. Then I look at the world around me ---- Ah yes!

Thank you for sharing this precious moment ❤️❤️

Just got “Hard Luck Stories” ❤️❤️❤️

PURE MAGIC 💖💖💖😘😘😘😘😘

Crazy, unpredictable guitar solo at the end there! Lots of outside notes and unusual phrases. RT really is a unique musician. This has to be around 1984 - 1986 going by the general style and... drummer's glasses!

No words.

Absolute shite

Swarb. 💚

Wonderful music from a beautiful couple ❤️

Saw Swarb and Martin Carthy play in a pub in Manchester on a Sunday night ( 1970?) Lots of beers flowing and a packed upstairs room. Fantastic.

Mr. Thompson is a fantastic talent and guitar guru.👍👍

I bet James never let Molly even drive that motorcycle.

Singing songs of the beauty of these isles.. how could such a man flirt with Islam? The absolute state of British folk musicians...

Flirt?

I dont know. I just love her music and voice.

Beauty caught in a song, I can hear her beauty having never seen her.

This is so incredibly beautiful and painful.

Just incredible. I lost my ability to breathe whilst listening to that.

My best friend did a cover of this song while in the midst of dieing

I remember him doing this song during his appearance with Fairport in 1996 - he also did Gypsy Love Songs, Galway to Graceland and Nobody's Wedding. I remember wondering why they didn't do any of the old Fairport songs. This was basically the early 80s RT band though (before the accordion and brass came in).

I adore the version of this performed my Mad dog McRae! I only just found out you are the original, what a wonderful song.

Such a beautiful song..... David Gilmour does a beautiful version if it as well 😁

Curly haired one

Thanks!

Which one is Richard Thompson?

Curly hair...eyes shut...

It’ no surprise when the daughter of a Broadway leading man can belt it out at times during this wonderful song. Bonnie’s voice was purer in the 70s , but she only diminished slighty at this stage, and combined it with maturity of heart.

Yup, ol' Johnny must have surely been quite PROUD of her when he was still of this world!

Just beautiful. Be thankful that you can hear this magic.

Right passable..

Went to his 70th birthday concert last year. Quite captivating.

Found this at last!

I broke up with my guy time ago and he dedicated this song to me, we never get back together even if I asked him as I was missing him so much but it was over. I keep on pushing the guys I love away because I'm too scared of being abandoned and suffer. Every time I listen to this song I feel like crying... maybe she's just so scared...

I listened to the Alison Krauss version. And then came back to this. Alison's is beautiful. This is overwhelming. And then there is her guitar. When they make lists of fingerpicking guitar players, they get to Bonnie Raitt pretty quickly

best ever. bonnie i love you

I was nineteen when I came to town They called in the Summer of Love They were burningbabies, burning flags The Hawks against the Doves I took a job in the STeamie Down on Cauldrum Street I fell in love with a laundry girl Was working next to me She was a rare thing Fine as a beeswing So fine a breath of wind might blow her away She was a lost child She was running wild, she said As long as there's no price on love, I'll stay And you wouldn't want me any other way Brown hair zig-zag round her face And a look of half-surprise Like a fox caught in the headlights There was an animal in her eyes She said, young man, O can't you see I'm not the factory kind If you don't take me out of here I'll surely lose my miind She was a rare thing Fine as a beeswing So fine a breath of wind might blow her away She was a lost child She was running wild, she said As long as there's no price on love, I'll stay And you wouldn't want me any other way We busked around the market towns And picked fruit down in Kent And we could tinker lamps and pots And knives wherever we went And I said that we might settle down Get a few acres dug Fire burning in the hearth And babies on the rug She said O man, you foolish man It surely sounds like hell You might be lord of half the world You'll not own me as well She was a rare thing Fine as a beeswing So fine a breath of wind might blow her away She was a lost child She was running wild, she said As long as there's no price on love, I'll stay And you wouldn't want me any other way We was camping down the Gower one time The work was pretty good She thought we shouldn't wait for frost And I thought maybe we should We were drinking more in those days And tempers reached a pitch Like a fool I let her run With the rambling itch Last I hear she's sleeping out Back on Derby beat White Horse in her hip pocket And a wolfhound at her feet And they say she even marriend once A man named Romany Brown But even a Gypsy caravan Was too much settliing down And they say her flower is faded now Hard weather and hard booze But maybe that's just hte price you pay For the chains you refuse She was a rare thing Fine as a beeswing And I missher more than ever words could say If I could just taste All of her wildness now If I could hold her in my arms today Then I wouldn't want her any other way

I've been listening to this tune as long as I can remember it seems, still rips my heart out every time...

Richards problem is he places too much emphasis on sexual love. This does not lead to happiness

That’s the point. He writes about how it’s ultimately a losing game as a cautionary tale

See yall comparing him to christy...have ya not heard Mad Dog Macre,s version.