Rich Man’s World came to me via the Shady Characters band here in Santa Cruz, who got it from artist-composer Eilen Jewell. The song fits Wales, as part of the UK—the other main imperialist country that, with us, runs (controls) the world’s banking, finance, and therefore wealth. I could say the Brits long treated the Welsh as 2nd-class citizens, but the Welsh know their own worth.~ And are proud UK citizens, like loving the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee (I was there for it!:). The UK (this my first time staying for any length) does share the US’s materialism in spite of its longer richer history and related interests and quirks.
I love this song for expressing the joys of feeling & moving free—even broke & lonely, needing work & stability. My “lonely rambler girl” is freewheeling, celebratory. Wales carries both sides of that equation: the power/$$ structure keeping us subservient &/or poor, struggling—and the freedom to transcend all that through nature, culture, companionship, simple pleasures, humor—music! I have to confess, the spoons in this one always crack me up . . !