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Thread #16147   Message #148868
Posted By: InOBU
13-Dec-99 - 03:23 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Green and Rolling Mills of New Jersey
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Green and Rolling Mills of New Jerse
I would thank you all in the language of that place, but, I am afraid it is not one of the forign languages I took in school and my wife speaks English, rather that Jersian. It is a lovely song, and I dont want folks to think I dont love the state. There are wonderful places, like the northern stretches of the Delaware, where one sees the old Jersey schooners, converted and still dredging oysters, or the farms which rival our own New York farms for quaint, BUT THEN AGAIN THERE IS ELIZABETH... Great seaport, however, I once told a friend in Ireland, you will know the refineries below Elizabeth by the smell of rotten eggs which you can smell for miles. About a year later, we were driving past the refineries, and she sat up in her seat and with great feeling said, This is the place you were describing in Ireland. Indeed.
Thanks for the wonderful words, and I will sing them with love and respect for our western neighbors
Larry