“I Remember” by Molly Drake, Nick Drake’s mother, who recorded this song and many others in the family’s living room in the 1950’s.
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“We tramped the open moorland in the rainy April weather
And came upon the little inn that we had found together
The landlord gave us toast and tea and stopped to share a joke
I remember firelight
I remember firelight
I remember firelight
And you remember smoke
We ran about the meadow grass with all the hairbells bending
and shaking in the summer wind, a summer never ending
We wandered to the little stream among the river flats
And I remember willow trees
I remember willow trees
I remember willow trees
And you remember gnats
We strolled the Spanish marketplace in the shade
With all the fruit and vegetables so temptingly arranged
We can share a memory as every lover lost
I remember oranges
I remember orange
I remember oranges
And you remember dust
The autumn leaves are tumbling down and winter’s almost here
But through the spring and summertime, we laughed away the year
Now we can be grateful for the gift of memory
For I remember having fun
Two happy hearts that beat as one
When I had thought that we were “we”
But we were you and me
