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Originally Posted by formerlylavender
Q373 - ...west
Seven Island Suite
"Seven islands to the high side of the bay if you're looking west"
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formerlylavender once again comes up with an even better than intended song which was - ''Does You Mother Know'.
formerlylavender submits, an even beter case with:
Q373 - ... west ...
Seven Island Suite
Her lyrics submitted that work very well from
Seven Islands Suite 
"Seven islands to the high side of the bay if you're looking
west"
I add just the next line to hers since we all love the song so much
it seems:
Seven islands to the high side of the bay if you're looking west
To the sunset you can see it, all in fiery autumn dress
It seems - ONLY Lightfoot can convey the
entire image, feel, sights, sounds, fragrance of Autumn, feel of the leaves crunching underfoot, etc. - an entire Autumn sunset painting given life and legs by The Man, with blazing beautful leaves quite that way - unbelievable, yes-
genius, but more than sheer intellect - the gift of song writing which knows no intellect
as a pre-requisite - but Lightfoot's particular brand of genius has been observed many times in corfid - his powerful command of the English language as we've commented here and there,
he has to be a well-read man, quietly, w/o public self-congratulation. Here anyway-
As all true genius IMO - needs no expression thereof, the proof is inthe results. That, with what, as an American, I can only assume is a Canadian's closer tie to the Queen's English - which I'll vouch first I believe - we are much
farther from (as in American English is farther from) - The language from England,
vis by the language in America - with back-formations, myriad various debaucheries, from mis-spelled contractions or statements often heard from Queen's English - such as: 'why that's Bloody good' has been theorized by English specialists as having come from (bloody) - a contraction of 'By our Lady'.
- say it fast, and one can imagine the 'bloody' adjective we associate with "English from England's" origins -
any British in the viewing audience care to comment or correct - please do so, quite welcome ! Our various colloquial and even smaller subsets of small regions - even neighborhood coloquialisms, from which we have established regional dialect bearing little in common I'm sure with the Queen's English... please comment any British folk or etylmologists in the readership - the views in this thread are over 13,000 (as opposed to posts now just over 1,000 )suggest greater than than ten-to-one interraction in the thread as being
non-participatory viewers - which are very, very welcome, in all ways -any British among you wish to comment on American English debauchery of The Queen's ? 
either 'viewers only' or players are welcome to comment on this above American's belief in variations from the original Queen's English we have in various forms around the country - indeed around the block in the case of enclaves all comments are welcome - and what of
corblimey ? I can look it up on various websites, but a British person's take is far more of interest. OK then- moving on to the next post -
Thank you so much for playing again f. Lavender ...
I'll post it in the X-files,corblimey !