@wlonk I think you might be my main hope here.
I'm trying to remember a folk song where she's walking along the river singing a song, and she meets a soldier who's whistling the same tune, and they have a fun little fling together.
The version I'm trying to find has the phrase "I knew we would be lovers" in it, but google's giving me zippo.
CAN YOU HELP
@lumpley if I can, it won't be immediate. This'll be in my head for days.
@wlonk I would swear that the name of the song was just "The Whistling Soldier" but I'm getting no returns at all.
It was on a CD I bought at a store 15 years ago or less (since lost). Pop-folk, nbd. How can there be no trace of it online?
I can't believe that there's not a folk song called "The Whistling Soldier" at all, even if it's not the one I mean. What on earth gives.
@PaulCzege @wlonk Disconnected impressions. It's actually the album that I'm looking for, this song is the thing I remember most clearly on it.
It has a song of advice for young lovers, where the metaphor is that the willow tree is the first tree to bud in spring. I don't remember the lesson we're supposed to take, though.
And a very sweet original song about how much her grandparents were in love throughout their life.
@PaulCzege @wlonk Yep! A singer-songwriter going by her own name, not a group. I think it was a mix of traditional and original songs.
@lumpley @wlonk
Every song you've described has a Gillian Welch vibe to me, but they don't match any specific Gillian Welch songs I know.