natalie macmaster fiddles in reel time
Like the heather
on the hillside
as they drove us
from the Highlands
Like the ice flow
from the Arctic
where we landed
in Newfoundland
There's a color
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
(Fiddle and synthesizer)
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 coalface
Then the cold wind
from the islands
blew a storm cloud
across the new moon
Like the gun smoke
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
(Fiddle and synthesizer)
(Applause)