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)