Covers
R.E.M. performed the song whilst touring the album Green, one performance being recorded on the Tourfilm DVD. Blind Melon singer Shannon Hoon sang it briefly at a concert. Meg White, of the White Stripes, covered the song on December 31, 2000 to conclude their New Year's Eve concert. Anthony Kiedis and John Frusciante of Red Hot Chili Peppers played the song in 1991 on a boat while being interviewed by the VPRO in Amsterdam, Holland. Rilo Kiley also recorded a version in 2002 for a split EP. James Iha performed the song with A Perfect Circle on January 31, 2004 on a tour in France after Maynard James Keenan challenged Americans in the audience to not use flash photography. Autolux drummer, Carla Azar performed the song as an encore while playing at the Henry Fonda Theatre.
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Sung asleep with Lullabies:
Pray be silent, and not stirre
Th’ easie earth that covers her.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
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“Boys finding for the first time their loins filled with heart’s
blood
Widowed farmers whose hands float under light covers to find
themselves
Arisen at sunrise”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)