No versions collected from tradition have the "dream" lover: they are all complaints about the pay rates for cotton hoosiers in Mobile, or other Gulf ports, with the second refrain being not "Lowlands away", but "My dollar-and-a-half a day".
And neither will I marry until the day I die
Since high winds and stormy seas have parted my love and me.
butterbean wrote:She was talking in one of those interviews about watching birds just flinging themselves in flight
hen88 wrote:I first need to say that I absolutely love this song. It's definitely one of my favorites on this album.
Second, in the narrative of the song, does the 101st Lightborne Elite lose to another team, the New Highland Light Infantry? Or is that group just another version of the 101st Lightborne Elite from an alternate reality? Also - it's implied that the song's narrator gets lost in the alternate reality by the end of the song. Time gets all f**ked up, and she ends up on a desert island. Does anyone know what the last line of the song means? "Highlands away, my John." Is she maybe sending an alternate version of her love out into battle once again?
love this song so friggin' much.
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