"Mary, Don't You Weep" is a black gospel classic, and when gospel groups sing it, a song they have sung ten thousand times, it's elaborately slow and so richly complex it disappears into gorgeous cascades of sounds. I'm thinking of Aretha.
Bruce Springsteen brought driving rock to the song. Mary wore three links of chain, and every link bore Jesus' name. Some in the audience booed at the near-rhyme. Not me.
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