A really excellent band back when real music and real musicians were being recorded Sandy Denny was an uncanny female vocialist original and talented in the band Fotheringay formerly Fairport Convention. Interestingly Cat Steven's Drummer plays on this tune and does an superb job. At a time during the Vietnam War this song typifies the futility of couples in love caught in the jaws of war even though this song is set in the 19th Century during Great Britain's great footprint on the planet during the height of their colonial empire. This song haunts me now with the Ukraine crisis in gear.

Sandy Denny did a memorable duet with Led Zepellin vocalist Robert plant and then shortly afterward died of cancer.

Surely a loss of a great vocalist and musician.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBSmR7fhNsk