My Heart Can't Tell You No and Hauberk

Contents 1 Rod Stewart version 1.1 Critical reception 2 Sara Evans version 2.1 Critical reception 2.2 Music video 2.3 Chart positions 2.4 Year-end charts 3 References 4 External links

Rod Stewart version

"My Heart Can't Tell You No" was a Top 15 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and mainstream rock charts, eventually reaching the Top Five (No. 4 in 1988). It was the highest charting single from the album. A music video was also produced and released for the single. Critical reception

Jon Grein of the Los Angeles times called the song "obviously commercial". Sara Evans version Critical reception

Jon Caramanica of The New York Times called Evans' version of the song a "gentle, regretful cover". Giving it four stars out of five, Bobby Peacock of Roughstock called it a "worthwhile cover" and described the production positively, although he thought that the lyrics were "slightly cluttered and underfocused". Kevin John Coyne, reviewing the song for Country Universe, gave it a D rating, calling it "watery, country-pop claptrap." Music video

The music video, directed by Peter Zavadil, was released on August 22, 2011. In it, Evans is shown watching, from various locations (including an apartment hallway and an underground parking garage, and a grocery store), a young woman crying and arguing with her "boyfriend." Later, Evans bumps into the young woman in a grocery store and begins to chat, when something catches the woman's eye. Lo and behold, it is the young woman's "boyfriend" with another woman. It is then that Evans realizes that the "boyfriend" is the young woman's lover and is cheating on his wife, who is now at the store with him. After bumping into them in an aisle and being introduced to the man's wife, the young woman who is shown clearly distraught walking away. The first ending then cuts to Evans in the parking garage as police and EMS rush to the room of the young woman, due to a presumed attempt at suicide. Two other alternate endings to the video were released as well, and were made available on Evans' website for streaming. The second ending shows the man going to the woman's apartment and the woman reluctantly letting him in yet again. The third ending shows the woman and man back in the parking garage where the woman finally walks away "for good."

The actress in the video, Vanessa Mandrell, has a connection to this song. The song was originally intended for her aunt, Barbara Mandrell, as it was co-written by Dennis Morgan who co-wrote many of Mandrell's number one hits including "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed," "Years," and "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool." Chart positions

"My Heart Can't Tell You No" debuted at number 54 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week dated June 18, 2011. Year-end charts

Hauberk and My Heart Can't Tell You No

A hauberk is a shirt of mail. The term is usually used to describe a shirt reaching at least to mid-thigh and including sleeves. Haubergeon ("little hauberk") generally refers to a smaller version of the hauberk, but the terms are often used interchangeably.

Contents 1 History 2 Construction 3 Gallery 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

History

The word hauberk is derived from the Old Frankish word halsberg, which originally described a small piece of mail that protects ("bergen", lit. "to give protection, to save, to rescue") the throat and the neck (the "Hals"). The Roman author Varro attributes the invention of mail to the Celts. The earliest extant example was found in Ciumeşti in modern Romania and is dated to the 4th–5th centuries BC. Roman armies adopted similar technology after encountering it. Mail armour spread throughout the Mediterranean Basin with the expansion of the Romans. It was quickly adopted by virtually every iron-using culture in the world, with the exception of the Chinese. The Chinese used it rarely, despite being heavily exposed to it from other cultures.

The short-hemmed, short-sleeved hauberk may have originated from the medieval Islamic world. The Bayeux Tapestry illustrates Norman soldiers wearing a knee-length version of the hauberk, with three-quarter length sleeves and a split from hem to crotch. Such armor was quite expensive—both in materials (iron wire) and time/skill required to manufacture it—so common foot soldiers rarely were so equipped.

The hauberk stored in the Prague Cathedral, dating from the 12th century, is one of the earliest surviving examples from Central Europe and was supposedly owned by Saint Wenceslaus. In Europe, use of mail hauberks continued up through the 14th century, when plate armor began to supplant it. In parts of Central Asia, it continued to be used longer.

In Japan, a form of hauberk called kusari katabira (chain jacket) was commonly worn by the samurai class and their retainers.

In the Hebrew Bible the shiryon, translated "habergeon" or a "coat of mail," is mentioned as part of the armor of Nehemiah's workers (Nehemiah 4:16), and one of the pieces of armor supplied by King Uzziah to his soldiers. (2 Chronicles 26:14) Goliath was also armed with a "coat of mail", weighing five thousand shekels, as he confronted David (1 Samuel 17:5). Construction A soldier removing a hauberk, from the 13th-century Morgan Bible

The hauberk is typically a type of mail armour which is constructed of interlocking loops of metal woven into a tunic or shirt. The sleeves sometimes only went to the elbow, but often were full arm length, with some covering the hands with a supple glove leather face on the palm of the hand, or even full mail gloves. It was usually thigh or knee length, with a split in the front and back to the groin so the wearer could ride a horse. It sometimes incorporated a hood, or coif. Gallery

Polish hauberk.

Sudanese hauberk.

European hauberk

Japanese hauberk.

Indian mail and plate hauberk. See also Mail (armour) Plated mail
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