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Originally Posted by Scootch
Wonderful, Glenn!
One of my favorite songs, based on a real person.
FWIW, the tea and oranges refer to Constant Comment tea.  |
Hi Dave,
Thanks so much for listening and for commenting. I'm very gratified that you liked this!
And thanks for the info on Constant Comment tea. I remember reading that myself about where the "...tea and oranges that come all the way from China..." came from.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/...s-song-suzanne
When I was first dating my wife about 51 years ago now, she gave me Constant Comment tea. It really had a wonderful aroma, but since I was a coffee drinker, I thought the tea tasted like colored water. She was patient with me, though...
I did learn to drink and enjoy tea later.
Also, recently there was quite a bit of news about the real Suzanne who died, I think, just this year. Leonard Cohen had an interesting relationship with her; I am thinking a platonic relationship, but I am not sure if my memory is accurate on that. Either way, she most certainly was a real person and must have been quite the free spirit. She apparently really did go to the Salvation Army to get interesting clothes and feathers to dress and decorate herself and, I think, her little boy.
She was pretty:
https://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/verdal.html
Thanks so much for chiming in here Dave!
- Glenn