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Posted by:	Whistler 01:23 pm EDT 08/17/14
In reply to:	re: Thanks - Taggart 11:13 am EDT 08/17/14

First, this is great and what I like best about this board: collective memory and analysis. So thanks again for taking the time. Second, I think we're all trying to force the rhyme on burn/turn. Petina's enunciation of final consonants is fairly clear, reinforced by George Abbot's reputation for enforcing them, so I think she's purposely singing BE, not a garbled something else. And in the chorus section, they also seem to be ending with an open vowel. So that simply could make the lyric: "And oh! the pain as I wake to know I never more can be Homeward, homeward --" I'm not sure a person can actually "be homeward" Be "going homeward" perhaps, but, what the hell: it's poetry. And thinking about the lyric before I listened to it again this morning, I thought the words might be: "And all the pain as I wait to know I never can return" But there was no support for that once I listened to the recording, and it doesn't make more sense, either. So I'm happy with what we have, and if someone figures out something better, great. Nice song, by the way, and I like it more for the work we did understanding it. Now I just have to learn to like the lyrics of A QUIET LAND again.

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