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Mar 18, 2024 · Sweet Gordon, an affable English teacher in Brooklyn, has beaten the odds; a French Girl has fallen in love with him and he's fallen even harder back. But their future is thrown into limbo when she interviews for an executive chef position in her hometown of Quebec City.
- Caitlin Tyrrell
- James A. Woods, Nicolas Wright
Feb 28, 2024 · Gordon has been married to his wife Kate, who tends to stay out of the limelight, for over 20 years. The pair tied the knot in 2003 with Gordon marking the anniversary with a sweet social media...
- Megan Nisbet
Sweet Gordon, an affable English teacher in Brooklyn, has beaten the odds; a French Girl has fallen in love with him and he’s fallen even harder back. But their future is thrown into limbo when she interviews for an executive chef position in her hometown of Quebec City.
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- Caramel Films, Elevation Pictures
- James A. Woods, Nicolas Wright
- Lyrics Develop Quickly from Flirtation to Despair
- Troubled Mind Knows No Rest
- I Did Put My Head to A Cask of Brandy
- Where Womankind Cannot Be Found
The song begins in a flirtatious way with the singer describing Peggy Gordon as his darling and inviting her to sit down upon his knee. But this is not to be a happy celebration for the two lovers. The carefree approach of the first two lines is quickly abandoned as the singer asks his lover why she has slighted him.
We are not told in what way the singer has been slighted but in the second verse, we get a clue that Peggy may have been speaking out of turn. The singer tells us that he is totally in love but then he says: “my heart lies smothered in my breast.” This may mean that he has to suppress his love because Peggy does not return his feelings. Then he cha...
At this point, the difference between them may be no more than a lover’s tiff. Even when he turns to drink in the form of a cask of brandy, it appears to be just a way of drowning his sorrows after an argument. While he drinks, he thinks constantly about her and keeps “wishing Peggy Gordon was here”. The next two verses suggest that the relationshi...
The singer wishes that he were far away across the sea, or in some lonesome valley “where womankind cannot be found”. It’s not clear whether this is just a temporary over-reaction from a man in the middle of a frustrating argument with his lover or whether the couple have actually broken up. It can be taken either way: the fact that there are two v...
Another version of this song, in the form of a vaudeville song called Sweet Maggie Gordon, [5] was published in New York from 1880. [6] The song tells a story of a man who is madly in love with a woman of this name and how he longs to be with her. [7]
Sweet (known as The Sweet until the early 1970s [1]) are a British glam rock band who rose to prominence in the 1970s. Their best-known line-up consisted of lead vocalist Brian Connolly, bassist Steve Priest, guitarist Andy Scott and drummer Mick Tucker.
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