We had no television till the mids. Bert is realistic enough to know that 'someone is going to get hurt', but knows that he needs to make the changes now or more will get hurt - it's a glorious life-affirming moment that Bert isn't ready to throw in the towel yet when he still has so much on his mind to say. The truth as ever lies somewhere in between: Renbourn's authenticness and desire to treat us to as bare-bones a Middle Ages record as he can make is admirable until you actually have to listen to it and you yearn to hear some other instrument or tempo in there somewhere. But this was the popular-music side of Bert Jansch. For all that, the narrator still believes he really did love her and will come back - even though the listeners know that's looking doubtful from the details she gives.
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