Suzanne Vega - Ironbound/Fancy Poultry free for downloading

The whole song is incredibly good. Minor key over poetic lyrics describing ordinary images, creating amazing metaphors that can take you to a lot of meanings. Then two verses in, minor key break, and she leads us into a major key childlike rhyme about poultry. And when she leads us out with 'wings are nearly free...' it's like angels drew close for a moment to Earth to connect us to somewhere just beyond what we see and hear and to someplace where we are free, really free. - just what I hear.

Backs used to be free for me feet cheap

I'm sitting here playing this with the recording on a guitar named Suzanne.

I always thought of her poet first then a singer filled my childhood with dreams glad I met her through her music sense of rhythm is her strong suit

This song is like a beautiful still life painting. So visual in her description of everything. Not trying to sell you anything, not trying to tell you how to feel....just painting a beautiful picture.

Great and overflowing with passion ... sad to say you just don't find this kind of songwriting these days..

Suzanne Vega, in 1987 - "'Ironbound/Fancy Poultry' refers to a meat market in an area of New Jersey that was bounded by railroad tracks and I have always thought that the lyrics are partly literal (descriptive) and partly metaphorical." I like this song.

Lots of great songs by Suzanne, but this one is the tops. High art.

Her voice has accompanied me for over 30 years. I'm always grateful.

Suzanne is an amazing poet and musician..I think this is finest song she has ever recorded. The orchestration, the dynamics, everything about it gives me chills. I listen to a wide variety of musical styles and I have to say that Vega can move seamlessly between any that she wishes.. I respect your talent Suzanne. Thank you for all of the wonderful works throughout the years. You were and still are a huge inspiration to my music.

Absolutely stunning song. So glad I discovered Suzanne in my teens and have had her with me all this time. When everything is falling apart you can just listen.

Why is it that thirty years later, this song still moves me to tears ? I must be daft or sumfink…

She has a zillion faces. Every picture of her looks different. I've listened to her music for about 20 years now, yet I think I would not recognize her if I saw her in person....but that voice is unmistakable.

this woman single-handedly and remotely saved my life thro her song when i was 15yrs old. i would like to think of her one day coming here and reading thro all these wonderful comments so she gets to know, in a lo-key unembarrassing kind of way, just what an inspiration she is and how she continues to touch upon so many ppls lives in deeply majickal ways.. biGThx S, beautiful one ! xxxxx

Only Suzanne can sing about chicken parts and make me cry.

i felt like i was the only one who loves this album

Solitude Standing's success , in 1987 , was truly deserved .Suzanne Vega is a timeless poetess , more than a simple singer . And her voice has something special too . Since that time I still love her as many of us .

This is about the Portuguese section in Newark, NJ called the Ironbound district.

Kids will grow like weeds on a fence, she says they look for the light they try  to make sense....