resonant | Musical alphabet meme

From

vickita:

Here are the rules: Comment with a request, and I'll give you a letter. You go and post five favourite songs/music videos that start with that letter.

She gave me D, so I give you ...

'Dainty Davy' by Jean Redpath. A love song collected by Robert Burns, and said by some to be based on a true story, about a woman who foolishly protected a young man by ... hiding him in bed with her nubile daughter.

'Devoted To You' by Carly Simon & James Taylor. When I was in high school, the chorus raised money by taking donations in exchange for sending a pair of singers into someone's homeroom to sing this song to them. I also know how to sing a third part in between the two voices, resulting in a paian to the eternally devoted love of three people.

'Don't Sugar Me' from 'Songs of the Pogo.' A poem from Walt Kelly's "Pogo" cartoon, set to music. Dr. Google informs me that the singer is the improbably named Fia Karin. I actually prefer the Muppets version.

'Drake's Drum' by the Revels. "Drake is in his hammock and a thousand miles away./Captain, art thou sleeping there below?/Slung atween the roundshot in Nombre de Dios Bay,/Dreaming all the time of Plymouth Hoe."

'Dry Bones' by Sons of Andros. I got this from a collection of folk music from the Bahamas (which I discovered accidentally while downloading doo-wop, as you do). I'd never known where that whole "ankle bone connected to the knee bone" thing came from.