28 Feb 04 ·FlyingDutchman1971: REM recorded a superb cover of this song which is available on the b-side compilation recording "Dead Letter Office". The album also has a beautiful rendition of the Velvet Underground's "Femme Fatale"
He's a psychobilly from the woods. His bearded figure foraged out to tell you what he saw, and he's pared his story down to the bare essentials so that his story is your story. "Over the hill, like always you know/ where Billy and Frankie and Henry and Joe/ they beat and broke me hard and slow/ to prove that I was nobody." His wound is your wound, and you follow the lyrics through as he wonders what gave him his redemption. And though you never thought of yourself as having found redemption per se, it seems like you must have. Essentially, Bonnie Prince Billy makes boys cry.
from Ease on Down the Road available on CD - Ease On Down the Road