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about
This highly personal, image-and-metaphor-rich song is Hannah’s love letter to her grandmother Anne, an artist who sang with Peggy Seeger at the height of the 1950s folk music revival in Boston. It was inspired by hearing stories of her grandmother’s beautiful voice and tales of the turbulent and difficult life she lived while struggling with the pain of being a shadow artist in a family that valued academic over artistic achievement.
Hannah captures the dual nature of the grandmother and artist she never knew with a clever double entendre. She refers to her as “Queen Anne” inspired by the delicate flowering plant, Queen Anne’s Lace, that grows wild around Hannah’s family’s rustic summer house in Westport, MA. Hannah’s lyrics tell the tale of the grandmother she would never know or hear sing: “Queen Anne, you had a voice that could fill a field of flowers.... Quick to love, quick to kill, unto all.... your name echoes on through the years.” Hannah sings, “I won’t let you be forgotten now” like a vow she carries with her as a singer/songwriter.
“This song is about me remembering a woman whose voice is part of my mine in some distant way, a voice I will never hear,” she says. “So many artists live and die and are never known by the world. When I sing ‘Queen Anne’s Lace,’ it is a gentle wave to her, my way of reaching back through time to honor her, so that her story will not be forgotten, and others can know her through my song. I want to thank her for bringing music into our family long before I was born and passing it on to all of us including my dad, who in turn helped nurtured my love for music.”
lyrics
Queen Anne, although I’ve never met you
I feel that I know you somehow
Queen Anne, you had a monarch’s will
Quick to love, quick to kill, unto all
Queen Anne, you had a voice that could fill a field of flowers
With white lace every hour ‘til the dawn
And your lace enchanted everyone
It captured sound and sun at the heart of a family
But one day, the lace, it disappeared
Replaced by weeds and tears
But your name echoes on through the years
Queen Anne, even though you’re no one’s favorite flower
I could gaze at you for hours in the sun
Queen Anne, you could shine up the night
With all of your might
A beacon of white, beautiful sight
I won’t let you be forgotten now
Your story’s just starting now to be told
Let my voice go streaming down the hills
Your song cannot be killed once you’re gone
Queen Anne, now you’re gone forever but you will be remembered
By the white lace in the valley, standing up to greet the sunlight
Swaying in the breezes at dawn
credits
from Hannah Jaye and the Hideaways,
released February 28, 2020
released February 28, 2020
Lead Vocals & Guitar: Hannah Jaye
Mandolin & Harmonies: Giacomo Fornasini
Fiddle & Harmonies: Meghan Mette
Acoustic Bass & Harmonies: Josh Ballard
Music & Lyrics by Hannah Jaye. Produced by Hannah Jaye and the Hideaways. Engineered by Doug Whipple. Mixed and Mastered by Jared Anderson of Evergreen Productions. Single Artwork by Melissa Thomas. Single Art Design by Becca Landwehr.
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