5/13/2023 0 Comments Peggy seeger the first time everThere are over 1000 cover versions alongside Roberta Flack’s iconic recording. The final verse is telling often recorded by others as “I knew our joy would fill the earth”, Peggy sings the original and far more poignant “I thought our joy would fill the earth and last til the end of time”. With a simple and moving piano accompaniment, Peggy’s new interpretation reflects on the memory of overwhelming love, now tempered with a deep mature knowledge of its fragility and fleetingness. “It was a hell of a way to woo me back!” says Peggy. That was the only time he ever sang the song which went on to become one of the greatest love songs of all time. He sang it down a crackling transatlantic phone line to Peggy who had returned to the USA, unwilling to continue an affair with a married man. The song was written for her by her lover Ewan MacColl in early 1957. Now 87, she’s reclaiming the song as an older woman reflecting over a lifetime of love and loss. Peggy Seeger IS the 'Face' of 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face'.
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