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Columbus 
Songwriter: Noel Brazil 
 
Lyrics:
Better keep your distance from this whale
Better keep your boat from going astray
Find yourself a partner and treat them well
Try to give them shelter night and day
'Cause here in this blue light
Far away from the fireside
Things can get twisted and crazy and crowded
You can't even feel right

So you dream of Columbus
Ever time the panic starts
You dream of Columbus
With your maps and your beautiful charts
You dream of Columbus
With an ache in your travelling heart

See how the cormorant swoops and dives
Must be some thrill to go that deep
Down to the basement of this life
Down to where the mermaid gently sleeps
Not like here in this blue light
Far away from the fireside
Where things can get twisted and haunted and crowded
You can't even feel alright

Chorus

And as tide must ebb and flow
I am dragged down under
And I wait the livelong day
For an end to my hunger

So I dream of Columbus
Every time that the panic starts
I dream of Columbus
With my maps and my beautiful charts
I dream of Columbus
And there's peace in a traveling heart
I dream of Columbus

This song can be found on the following albums:
Title   Type Year
No Frontiers  CD  1989 
Summer 1990 Compilation 1990
Introducing Mary Black  CD Promo  1991 
The Collection  CD  1992 
The Collection Live  Video  1992 
Looking Back  CD  1995 
Only A Woman's Heart (Duet with Emmylou Harris)  CD Single  1995 
Columbus  CD Promo  1996 
Folkscene Collection  Compilation  1998 
Mary Black Live CD & DVD/Video 2003
Twenty-five years - Twenty-five songs CD 2008

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