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Jackson Browne, 1972
Written by Jackson Browne
This bittersweet maritime folk tale of a song is the story of a girl, Jamaica, whom the narrator loves and stays a time with ("Jamaica was the lovely one, I played her well / As we lay in the tall grass where the shadows fell"), but as the daughter of a sea captain, she belongs to the ocean and her native shores. The narrator helps her load the ship for home on the docks one dark sad night, and must decide to accompany with or lose her. Browne sketches the relationship in soft, impressionistic strokes, with their romance feeling temporary from the beginning due to lines about hiding from others. Musically, the song drifts with a gentle, melancholy grace, Browne's piano and voice carrying the emotional weight without overstatement.
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