Sad Waters Art Print

`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