Love, Love, LOVE this song!!!!!!!!! From The Year Of The Cat album, I believe, where it is stunningly beautiful! Just saw Al last week and luckily he played this song, as it's become my favorite since first hearing it a few weeks ago.
Peter White (playing the electric guitar solo @about the 2:11 mark, he of acoustic guitar/Smooth Jazz fame) looks like a teenager in this vid. Hard to believe this is from 1989. Nice blast from the past!
To Cindy from Maui who spent her senior year wowing us in NE Ohio back in 76 - 77. wherever you are know that you and your sweet smile have not been forgotten.
You always were a city kid though you were country raised And back in some forgotten time we shared the cold north days But the simple life was not your style, and you just had to escape So it's goodbye to my lady of the islandsOn Remembrance Day the bands all played, the bells pealed through the park And you lay there by the Do Not signs, and shamed them with your spark Now winter moans in old men's bones as the day falls into dark So it's goodbye to my lady of the islandsIt was just like this behind the kisses you so soon swept away I always knew that some day yo'd be bound to just get pulled awayThe summer sun beats on and on, the shops swim in the heat And you're standing by the traffic signs with taxis at your feet I know that in your city skin you're feeling more complete So it's goodbye to my lady of the islandsNo I never got the letters that you said you'd send me So it's goodbye to my lady of the islands
I like the way he slightly changes his style of singing from the album. Love this version. He and rest of band seem to be so happy. Just wish the sound quality was better but when the song is great it still pulls through.
