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Thread #83195   Message #2421720
Posted By: quokka
25-Aug-08 - 09:41 AM
Thread Name: Favorite songs of longing and old love
Subject: RE: Favorite songs of longing and old love
'Birds and Ships' words by Woody Guthrie, music by Billy Bragg, sung by Natalie Merchant on Mermaid Avenue.(This is just from memory so might not be completely accurate)

Birds are singing in your eyes tonight
Sweet flowers blossom in your smile
Th wind and sun are in the words you say
Where might your lonesome lover be?

Birds may be singing in my eyes this night
Sweet flowers blossom when I smile
But my soul is stormy and my heart blows wild
For my lover rides a ship on the sea

My soul is stormy and my heart blows wild
Where might my lonesome lover be....

Cheers,
Quokka