Art print of the first draft of ‘Sad Waters’ with drawings and lyrics by Nick Cave. This is the first draft of the song, written in Berlin c1985.
`Sad Waters was written in Kreuzberg, Berlin in the mid-80s, but is a 'memory-song' set at the riverbank from my childhood in Wangaratta, Australia. It is part fiction, part fact, as most memory-songs are. There was a river, a willow tree and a girl—the rest is imagined. The first two lines —
Hair of gold and lips like cherries are, of course, taken from Green, Green Grass of Home, the classic American ballad of a prisoner awaiting execution.
This art print is the very first attempt at the writing of Sad Waters.´
- Nick Cave
Size: 40 cm x 50 cm
Print: Exclusive off-set print by Something Else
Paper: Zen Pure White, uncoated art print paper, 350gsm
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