what do you think "Crimson and Clover" means?

[Cecrle]

Any ideas as to what Tommy James and the Shondell's song "Crimson and
Clover" is about?

My dad thinks/thought it was about blood and cemetaries--the Vietnam war.
I've read that James said it was expressing his feelings with colors. My
vague guess was that it means virginal blood on a field, as in the
narrator "shows her" her about sex, her first time.

Maybe a drug, drugs?

Any thoughts?

-FC

[bill]

Why does it have to _mean_ anything?

Bill House
http://www.mp3.com/hatemhouse
New Music for a New Millenium

Cecrle wrote in message <7b7hrf$bs7$1...@nw001t.infi.net>...

[Cecrle]

[Gerrit de Blaauw]

bill wrote:
>
> Why does it have to _mean_ anything?

To be honest, I think Cecrle never stated that it *has* to mean
something. Here's the lyrics, so everyone can decide for themselves.

CRIMSON AND CLOVER

Now, I don't hardly know her,
But, think I could love her
Crimson and clover.
I wish she'd come walking over, I'm waiting to show her,

Crimson and clover
Over and over

Yes, my, my, such a sweet thing,
What a beautiful feeling.

Crimson and clover
Over and over
(repeat)

--
Gerrit de Blaauw
wearier but glad

[CyberGex13]

Geez, you're a bit morbid. :) I always thought it meant red and green, for
anger and envy. But I don't know the context it's used in. Any help here would
be appreciated. ;)

[Michael]

bill wrote:
>
> Why does it have to _mean_ anything?
>

> Bill House
> http://www.mp3.com/hatemhouse
> New Music for a New Millenium
>
> Cecrle wrote in message <7b7hrf$bs7$1...@nw001t.infi.net>...

Well, we'll get to hear it again very soon. If you didn't know, it will
be on the soon to be released soundtrack to the film "A Walk On The
Moon", performed by Cher and her son Elijah Blue Allman (Deadsy).

[Matthew Montchalin]

In a previous article, mce...@sbt.infi.net (Cecrle) says:
>Any ideas as to what Tommy James and the Shondell's song "Crimson and
>Clover" is about?
>
>My dad thinks/thought it was about blood and cemetaries--the Vietnam war.
>I've read that James said it was expressing his feelings with colors.

Well, clovers are part of the legume family, aren't they? Wasn't eating
soy beans (as an effort to include as a supplement to the vegetarian diet)
beginning to grow as a fad around that time? Clovers have green leaves;
their blossoms are, depending on the species, pink, or violet, or purple.
Much more likely that it had something to do with vegetarianism, I
think... Crimson and clover, over and over... Endless repetition of
clover in the famed appetite of the American Hippy to try out anything new...
--

[Taboo13]

I've actually thought ever since Joan Jett had her shot at the song in
the early 80's that Crimson and clover was refering to an acid trip.
"I don't hardly know her... but I think I could love her... Crimson and
Clover, over and over"

something that a person might think durring that time at a party as he
was tripping on acid looking at the pretty green and red lights in
his/her mind.
--
Posted via Talkway - http://www.talkway.com
Surf Usenet at home, on the road, and by email -- always at Talkway.

[?????]

I personally think it's about a man in vietnam who's been shot and dyin
and he's talkin to an angel. Talking about the blood stained grass hence
crimson and clover. Just my thoughts.
Gerrit de Blaauw wrote in message <36D75462...@hot.a2000.nl>...

>bill wrote:
>>
>> Why does it have to _mean_ anything?
>