<P> The song is a slow - paced reflection in three verses on observed events ("Across the evening sky all the birds are leaving") Having described these observations, Denny then writes that for her, some things are timeless ("Before the winter's fire, I will still be dreamin'; I have no thought of time") and in the last line of the short chorus asks rhetorically "Who knows where the time goes?". </P> <P> The song is in the key of E major and employs relatively complex jazz - like chord progressions . </P> <Ul> <Li> Cover versions have been recorded by, among others, Mia Doi Todd, 10,000 Maniacs, Mary Black, Eva Cassidy, Judy Collins, Nana Mouskouri, Lonnie Donegan, Nanci Griffith, Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet, Deanna Kirk, Charlie Louvin, Cat Power, Eddi Reader, Julianne Regan (with Fairport Convention), Kate Rusby, Nina Simone (on her 1970 live album Black Gold), Barbara Dickson, Kate Wolf, Lumiere w / Sinéad O'Connor, Heather Masse (on the radio program A Prairie Home Companion),, Dez Mona. and Itsuwa Mayumi </Li> <Li> Besides Judy Collins' 1968 album Who Knows Where the Time Goes, Who Knows Where the Time Goes is the title of Fairport Convention's 1997 album, Michel Griffin's 2008 album, Kate Rusby's single CD, and Rondi Charleston's 2011 jazz album . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Cover versions have been recorded by, among others, Mia Doi Todd, 10,000 Maniacs, Mary Black, Eva Cassidy, Judy Collins, Nana Mouskouri, Lonnie Donegan, Nanci Griffith, Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet, Deanna Kirk, Charlie Louvin, Cat Power, Eddi Reader, Julianne Regan (with Fairport Convention), Kate Rusby, Nina Simone (on her 1970 live album Black Gold), Barbara Dickson, Kate Wolf, Lumiere w / Sinéad O'Connor, Heather Masse (on the radio program A Prairie Home Companion),, Dez Mona. and Itsuwa Mayumi </Li>

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