“take your broken wings and learn to fly…” – I’ve read that Sir Paul McCartney used these lyrics as a metaphor: to encourage the black people in the sixties, fighting in the USA for human rights…
title=”piccione incazzato” – photo kilometro 00 / Enrico Colussi, Treviso, Italy, click on the picture to enter his galleries at on Flickr
once I wrote to Enrico Colussi: “I like to play blues guitar and sometimes I sat down on a street and played on my Dobro. Feeling blue I always noticed the pigeons – and I adored them, though walking, they could take their wings for a ride up up and away…”
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Grazie infinite, abbracci!!!! 🙂 non ho altre parole se non di gratitudine!
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mille grazie, Enrico!
google translates your Italian comment as
“Thank you so much, hugs!
I have no other words but of gratitude!”
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also with broken wings:
title=”MIDDAY..:::..In The Garden…
photo by Never Was An Arrow II (Paul Cardin, Canada), on Flickr
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I could listen all day…
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I’ve always loved this song, but didn’t know the meaning behind it. Thanks for enlightening me. 🙂
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“I’ll Fly Way, dear Jesus, I’ll Fly Away!”
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I believe this song was banned in some countries!
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LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that song.
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thank you rommel 🙂
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Frizz,
When I listened to Scarborough Fair I wanted there to be more! Lovely playing and great photo of the pigeons…nice post…
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Love that blackbird…sounds great! I could almost here Paul and the blackbird singing along.
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Very nice…
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Very, very nice!
This was a song I was given to practice when I first started guitar lessons. I could never play it. It was too advanced. Maybe someday I will try it again.
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about your impressive hummingbirds
They are independent and migrate alone = not like group tourists
They can move in all directions instantaneously = like a heli
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indeed = they are inspiring!
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