"Oh my apple tree my brightness" - another song so big it takes a massive heart to sing it as anything other than pastiche.
Damn midgets.
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I should make a list of these near-impossible songs: Cohen's Hallelujah, Blake's Jerusalem, Burns' Jacobites, Gaelic "stretched on yr grave"
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Bruce Dickinson did a good job with Jerusalem. Maybe not for everyone, but for me it has that something: youtube.com/watch?v=Y9OHDf
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I would also add Nordahl Grieg's 'Til Ungdommen'. I've never heard an entirely satisfying version: youtube.com/watch?v=irfB9G