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#97378 03/04/03 05:00 PM
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If it hadn't been so funny…


#97379 03/04/03 07:55 PM
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Help me play along on the violin for WW here, Faldage.

Blackbird

(John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
Lead Vocal: Paul McCartney

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free

Blackbird fly
Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night

Blackbird fly
Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise


© 1968 by Lennon/McCartney or make that McCartney/Lennon as Sir Paul would now prefer




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I didn't see a single mention of any dadburned Mexican Gray World in the lyric... sheesh.


#97381 03/04/03 11:10 PM
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Bye,bye, Blackbird!


#97382 03/05/03 12:15 AM
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I didn't see a single mention of any dadburned Mexican Gray World in the lyric... sheesh

Look again:

Take these broken wings and learn to fly,
Into the dark of the Gray World night.




#97383 03/05/03 08:32 AM
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Your eyes see what my eyes cannot see. I am blind. I see no gray world there except in what you wrote just above. All I see is black night--and I'm hearing quite a bit of rain, to boot.

What does "to boot" mean and where did it come from? Bootless means 'useless'--so perhaps 'to boot' means 'to put to use'?


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so perhaps 'to boot' means 'to put to use'?

To boot.

Meaning:
In addition to.

Origin:
From the Old English word bot - compensation.



#97385 03/05/03 03:31 PM
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And remember, Dub-Dub, a Lone Wolf is never gray, just lonely...

Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie...



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http://www.itsagreysworld.com/articles/about.htm

-joe (itsnotbloominresting) parrot

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