Artist: Mountain
Author: Gail Collins/Felix Pappalardi
Label: Windfall
Year: 1971

On their Flowers Of Evil album. It's about a couple of swans. A hunter shoots the female, disordering the male. Out of thirty new females presented, not one did he choose. Hasn't even uttered any sound since. Story strong enough for couple Collins/Pappalardi to distill a song, not strong enough to learn lessons from: in 1983 Gail shot her husband.