¤ milky moon ¤

I used Sprout & Bean to pull me back from the edge

having not heard it for...many years.

It was the song that got me then,

And it was the song that helped me now.

A precious thing,...

at the dearth of the day.
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It has been so very long and I am very tired.

"...at the dearth of the day"?

It seems that I'm not correct about this.

For many decades, I thought the song began thus:

My country, 'tis of Thee,
Sweet Land of Liberty
Of the icing...

I swear to God. My entire life up to a few years ago, I thought this.

Yeah, you know, purple mountains majesty...I thought, maybe, the snow-covered mountains (majesty) were icing, frosting.

Now, I'm supposed to believe that it's really "dirt of the day"?

Well I have kept "sable eyes" rather than "save our eyes"
In Kingfisher

I'm totally with Queen of Nerds on her Kingfisher interpretation. I had always heard it as "sable eyes", and was quite shocked when I discovered it was "save our eyes" in the lyric booklet.

I'd been caught out before ... "you blush, Ink Boy", turned out to be "you blushing boy", and now when I listen, I have to agree that the 'official' reading is correct (though not nearly as much fun)!

So I went back and listened to Kingfisher, believing I'd hear the lyric-book version ... but I still didn't. In fact, I am more convinced than ever that there's a "b" sound in there, so I'm sticking with "sable".

I thought it was "You blush, pink boy".