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Thread #51536   Message #1955060
Posted By: Teresa
01-Feb-07 - 06:31 PM
Thread Name: Visual Songs
Subject: RE: Visual Songs
I had to refresh this, because it's such an interesting discussion, like so many others here.

I'm totally blind and always have been, yet I love visual lyrics. Two songs that come to mind for me are Henry Lawson's "Reedy river" which was set to music:

Now still down Reedy River
The grassy she-oaks sigh;
The water holes still mirror
The pictures in the sky;
The golden sand is drifting
Across the rocky bars;
And over all for ever
Go sun and moon and stars

and Stan Rogers' "White Squall":

I could feel her keeling over with the fury of the blow.
I watched the rail go under then, so terrible and slow.
Then, like some great dog she shook herself and roared upright again.
Far overside. I heard him call my name.


Too late for the original workshop, but I guess the virtual one continues. :) And all this because I was looking for the lyrics for "Wild Birds" and found them, too.

Teresa