Single - 1. Sentimental Lady.
2. Lyrical composition.
The original placeholder/dummy lyrics for the chorus before the full lyrics were wrtten was, "my legs are sticks and my feet are stones."[2] The song has a notable introduction with a musical box.
According to Welch, "The lyric was probably referencing my first wife (at the time) Nancy.[2] In the song Welch personifies the love of his life as a "sentimental, gentle wind" which he perceives as "blowing through my life again."[4]
In the original song, Welch includes the lyrics which are repeated several times in the chorus, "And all of the things that I said that I wanted come rushing by in my head when I'm with you, 14 joys and a will to be merry."[5] In the 1977 recording of the song Welch makes no reference to this but retains the references to the "sentimental blowing wind".[4]
Donald Brackett, in his 2007 book, Fleetwood Mac, 40 Years of Creative Chaos has discussed Welch's poetic romantic lyrics in Sentimental Lady and writing and performing style. He describes the featuring of the song on the 1972 album Bare Trees as the best example of the group's move towards a new, softer and highly commercial style in the early 1970s and describes the essence of the lyrics and nature of the song as "almost too gentle" but describes his voice as like "crushed velvet", in that he believes his voice was simultaneously gentle and threatening in tone, a symbolic balance between the emotions of hope and despair.[6] He later says of Welch's song writing, "Welch had the unique ability to encapsulate in a single song the travails of personal intimacy as well as the larger social picture in which we all lived".[6]
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