Ten Favorite Days of the Week Songs: A Month of Sundays (#7)

Tweet

Here's another song that has the name of a day in the title. This series doesn't include Saturday, because I've already taken care of my ten favorite Saturday songs. As I mentioned earlier, a lot of these are "Sunday" songs. What can I say -- as Dave Edmunds said, here comes the weekend! And here comes the next song. #7: A Month of Sundays - Don Henley Originally released only as the B-side to "The Boys of Summer," this song is the total antithesis of that mega hit. This is a quiet song, told by the perspective of an older man who "used to work for Harvester" and "quit the plant back in '57" to take up farming. Told in almost a rambling, novel-like manner, Henley's song tells of the plight of the small family farm. By extension, he also takes aim at the greater problem with the U.S. that we have now seen come to fruition: "folks these days just don't do nothin' simply for the love of it." This isn't a happy, sing-along tune. Henley didn't intend it to be that way. It hits between the eyes, telling the story of what's happening to the independent farmer and, by extension, the rest of the country. Most significantly, it's more observation than "preachy politics" that's clouded a lot of his later work. A Month of Sundays Written by Don Henley Recorded by Don Henley Released as the B-side of "The Boys of Summer," 1984 (Subsequently released on the CD version of Building the Perfect Beast) I sit here in the shadow of suburbia: