Bibiel Hears Things: Cornelis Vreeswijk – “En Fattig Trubadur” (A Poor Troubadour)

Hey people! I feel like I haven’t shared anything by Cornelis Vreeswijk in a while. And, as you may know by now if you’ve been around here for some time, Cornelis Vreeswijk is one of my faza peeps, and I generally like to feature my major faza peeps at least semi-regularly. One problem I often face when featuring Cornelis on my blog is that not very many of his songs are really suitable for someone like myself to share publicly as a TradCath, as our respective values, political views and general worldview are, in many ways, drastically different from each other, and I’d feel like an irresponsible hypocrite passively endorsing things that go unambiguously against my values, no matter how much I may like the person behind them. Hence, a lot of the time, I’m suspicious of the intent behind Cornelis’s songs sort of by default. So was the case with this one. I remember when I first heard this song – I was about seventeen or eighteen and relatively naive, and still very much in the process…