** Reply to message from Mason Flint <masonfl at microsoft.com> on Mon, 08 Jul 2002 16:29:14 -0700


> I'll add a couple of songs from Neil Young
>
> Danger Bird - from Zuma
> Hawks and Doves
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Joni Mitchell uses birds in many of her songs.

Here is the 5th verse of "Dreamland"

"In a plane flying back to winter
In shoes full of tropic sand
A lady in a foreign flag
On the arm of her Marlboro Man
The hawk howls in New York City
Six foot drifts on Myrtle's lawn
As they push the recline buttons down
With dreamland coming on
Dreamland, dreamland
Dreamland, dreamland"

And the 1st verse of "Slouching toward Bethlehem" (reworking of a Yeat's opus):

"Turning and turning
Within the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
Things fall apart
The center cannot hold
And a blood dimmed tide
Is loosed upon the world"

And of course, the 1st verse of "Song to a Seagull":

"Fly silly seabird
No dreams can possess you
No voices can blame you
For sun on your wings
My gentle relations
Have names they must call me
For loving the freedom
Of all flying things
My dreams with the seagulls fly
Out of reach out of cry"

jb

Jack Bowling Prince George, BC mailto: jbinpg at shaw.ca