Stream: The Decemberists: "Yankee Bayonet"

Stream: The Decemberists: "Yankee Bayonet"

On this Civil War-themed cut from the Decemberists' The Crane Wife, due out October 3 on Capitol, Colin Meloy steps to fellow Pacific Northwesterner Laura Veirs, "But oh, did you see all the dead of Manassas, all the bellies and the bones and the bile?" Then she's all like, "No, I lingered here with the blankets barren and my own belly big with child." Oh no you didn't!

As is customary with these sorts of things, the rift is mended when she makes a grave so he can return home, possibly as a ghost. So basically, it's your average he-said/she-said shit.

Posted by Dave Maher on Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 12:22pm