Natalie MacMaster & Thomas Dolby: Fiddling in reel time

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♫ Like the heather ♫
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♫ on the hillside ♫
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♫ as they drove us ♫
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♫ from the Highlands ♫
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♫ Like the ice flow ♫
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♫ from the Arctic ♫
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♫ where we landed ♫
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♫ in Newfoundland ♫
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♫ There's a color ♫
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♫ to my sorrow ♫
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♫ There's a name for ♫
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♫ all this sadness ♫
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♫ Like the ocean ♫
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♫ in between us ♫
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♫ I am blue ♫
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♫ Blue is a river ♫
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♫ Blue remembered ♫
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♫ Blue water ♫
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♫ running clear ♫
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♫ Blue like a planet ♫
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♫ to a spaceman ♫
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♫ Blue river ♫
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♫ of my tears ♫
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(Fiddle and synthesizer)
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♫ So I came here ♫
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♫ to the city ♫
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♫ where the dream burns ♫
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♫ like a furnace ♫
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♫ And I dazzled ♫
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♫ in these dark streets ♫
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♫ like a diamond ♫
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♫ in a coalface ♫
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♫ Then the cold wind ♫
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♫ from the islands ♫
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♫ blew a storm cloud ♫
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♫ across the new moon ♫
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♫ Like the gun smoke ♫
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♫ above the houses ♫
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♫ in my home ♫
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♫ Blue is a river ♫
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♫ Blue remembered ♫
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♫ Blue water ♫
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♫ running clear ♫
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♫ Blue like a planet ♫
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♫ to a spaceman ♫
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♫ Blue river ♫
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♫ of my tears ♫
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♫ Blue river ♫
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♫ of my tears ♫
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