Ghost song?

December 4, 2010 10:36 AM

A ton of lyrics sites seem to think there is a song "For Everyone" by Dar Williams. Does this song actually exist, or is this some weird misattribution?

Evidence against it being a misattribution is that if one Googles the lyrics, there are no other attributions... but neither does this song appear to ever have been performed or recorded by Dar.

posted by dmd to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

Well, this page by wikipedia says it's on a scarce cassette, but I can't actually confirm it in the sense of owning it myself or having heard the song. It's somewhere to look, though!
posted by Stormfeather at 10:48 AM on December 4, 2010

Ask the dar-list (fan listserv) or her guy at Razor and Tie. Contact info here. Some of the people on the dar-list are kind of terrifying a la the "Brocktoon" sketch, IIRC, but they'll know.
posted by Sidhedevil at 12:52 PM on December 4, 2010 [1 favorite]

I had a copy of that cassette at one point; it's since disappeared but I can confirm its existence. I don't remember the tracklist but the one on Wikipedia looks accurate as best I can recall. I vaguely remember the choruses of the title track and "Stop Smoking"; they, at least, are definitely real songs.
posted by valrus at 7:31 PM on December 4, 2010

Mod note: Final update from the OP:

This is now available on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zuJKlCg9S0

posted by travelingthyme (staff) at 5:40 PM on January 17