Songfacts®:

• Running to around 4 minutes 47 seconds, this is the third track from the 2006 album The Village Lanterne, and was co-written by Mr. and Mrs. Blackmore. The phrase "I guess it doesn't matter anymore" is best known for a certain Buddy Holly song. Candice Night was born more than a decade after the death of Buddy Holly, but her husband was nearly 14 the day the music died. Nevertheless, the lyric is almost certainly coincidental, and the track itself bears no resemblance musically or otherwise to Holly's lachrymose ballad, which was in any case written by Paul Anka.
• "I Guess It Doesn't Matter Anymore" is an uptempo number about an encounter with a mysterious spectral lady. Although she is not named herein, she is Resurrection Mary, who is said to haunt Resurrection Cemetery at Justice, Illinois. Whether or not her ghost is real, the lady certainly was; Mary Bregovy was killed in a car crash on March 10, 1934. She was just 21 years old.
  
  It should be pointed out that there are two other candidates for this apparition: Mary Miskowsky of Chicago, and Anna Norkus, who was only 12 years old when she too died in a car accident. It is in any case clearly Mary Bregovy who is alluded to here.
• But for the female vocal, this song would not have been out of place on a Deep Purple Mark I album. Alas, as Ritchie Blackmore has pointed out on occasion, that is another time, another place. >>

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