As promised Major: (and for Scottie and, mD has some Scots in 'im?)

BLUE IS A RIVER

Like the heather on the hillside as they drove us from the Highlands
Like the iceflow from the Arctic where we landed in Newfoundland
There’s a colour to my sorrow, there’s a name for all this sadness
Like the ocean in between us, I am blue

Blue is a river, blue remembered
Blue water running clear
Blue like a planet to a spaceman
Blue river of my tears

So I came here to the city
Where the dream burns like a furnace
And I dazzled in these dark streets like a diamond in a coal face
Then the cold wind from the islands
Blew a storm cloud across the new moon
Like the gunsmoke above the houses in my home.

Blue is a river, blue remembered
Blue water running clear
Blue like a planet to a spaceman
Blue river of my tears
Blue river of my tears

-- Thomas Dolby

Performed here with Natalie MacMaster:

http://blog.thomasdolby.com/?p=421


(mD: re-read FQ: humility is endless :thumbup: )

P/Haigha,
Thanks for that paste and the link...
Natalie MacMaster is one of my fiddle faves; V&I saw her, as a girl/barely
young woman at the upptiy NewPaltz, NY art fair several years ago, circa
Roots are Showing album. They have very good eclectic talent at that venue,
but she blew the crowd away.

NEway, vectored off the lyrics, but well done and enjoyable. Helluva interesting thread,
if only a few readers.

I knew FourQs would give you pause, again...;>)

Another topic, but since Newfie was mentioned, I have a great book rec'd:
Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston. Both V&I have read it a couple
of times. Having been to NFL only once, on "biz", I found it a very well/differently written
fiction on 19th cent. life there, relationships, a strong heroine, etc.

http://www.amazon.com/Colony-Unrequi.../dp/0385495439

Back to OMG! Lmao!
BR,mD

PS: Yes to the Scot connection, though not as Scot as Scottie...
my paternal grandmother was born in Edinburg.