one day when I grew older

"Google"
Gordon Lightfoot, High and Dry
and Play


(No one knows what the lyrics of this song mean, but Gordon Lightfoot fans really like it. ...)


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With ladylike devotion, she sails the bitter ocean,
If it wasn't for lovesick sailors,
There'd be nothin' left but flotsam.


Singin' why, me oh my, is there a better man than I?
I hope you find your way back home
Before you're lyin' -- high and dry,
I hope you find your way back home before you die.


Her sails billow like bubbles,
While you sip your daily doubles,
If she wasn't so fond of the weather
She might give the deckhands trouble


Singin' why, me oh my, is there a better man than I?
I hope you find your way back home
Before you're lyin' -- high and dry,
I hope you find your way back home before you die.


One day when I grew older,
I found I could not hold her,
She took on a fine young skipper,
Who soon ran her up on a boulder.


Singin' why, me oh my, is there a better man than I?
I hope you find your way back home,
Before you're lyin' -- high and dry,
I hope you find your way back home before you die.


Now the pleasures of the harbor
Don't include a lady barber,
If it wasn't for Long John Silver,
All of us pirates would've been martyrs


Singin' why, me oh my, is there a better man than I?
I hope you find your way back home,
Before you're lyin' -- High and dry,
I hope you find your way back home,
Before you're lyin' -- high and dry


I hope you find your way back home before you die.


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"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
> U.S. President Ronald Reagan, June 1987


"Governor, take down that flag!"
> assorted citizen voices, June 2015


These days, we're finding it unnecessary to blow-dry our hair in the morning, we can just put our head in front of a window and let the brisk flapping tailwinds of change phoooshing up from South Carolina do the job.





According to a June 22 story in the New York Times, 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said he believed the Confederate flag at the South Carolina Capitol "had to come down, a message he delivered Saturday morning on Twitter to an extraordinary response.  Thousands of people, including Mr. Obama, retweeted the message, many of them heralding his stand.


Mr. Romney was taken aback by the reaction and told an aide he was glad he had spoken out."


The article reports South Carolina's Governor Haley listened to ideas from other leaders over the weekend and yesterday "she summoned officials to her office and told them of her decision:  It was time for the Confederate flag to stop flying over the historic building's grounds. 


Every leading South Carolina politician -- stunned by the massacre, moved by the church's demonstration of grace and fearful of the repercussions from inaction -- agreed.


'If you want to credit anybody here, credit the families of the victims and the church members who displayed Christianity and love," [U.S. Senator Lindsey] Graham said.  'The politicians followed their moral authority.'"


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"Tape is rolling on American history."
> Malcolm Boyd, priest; author; 1960s activist


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{New York Times article, "Nikki Haley, South Carolina Governor, Calls for Removal of Confederate Battle Flag," written by Frances Robles, Richard Fausset and Michael Barbaro}


{"High and Dry," written and recorded by Gordon Lightfoot, 1974 album Sundown, label:  Reprise}


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