Tell you a story, and it's a true one
And I'll tell it like you'll understand
And I ain't gonna talk like some history man

I look out and I see a land
Young and lovely, hard and strong
For fifty thousand years we've danced her praises
Prayed our thanks and we've just begun

This is, this is my country
Young and growin' and free and flowin' sea to sea
Yes this is my country
Ripe and bearing miracles in every pond and tree

Her spirit walks the high country
She is givin' free wild samples and settin' an example
How to give, yes, this is my country
Retchin' and turnin', she's like a baby learnin' how to live

I can stand upon a hill at dawn
Look all around me, feel her surround me
Soldier blue, can't you see her life has just begun?
It's beating inside us, telling us she's here to guide us

Ooh, soldier blue, soldier blue
Can't you see that there's another way to love her?

This is my country
And I sprang from her and I'm learnin' how to count upon her
Tall trees and the corn is high country
Yes, I love her and I'm learnin' how to take care of her

Whenever the news stories get me down
I, I take a drink of freedom to think of
North America from toe to crown
It's never long before I know just why I belong here

Ooh, soldier blue, soldier blue
Can't you see that there's another way to love her?
Ooh, soldier blue, soldier blue
Can't you see that there's another way to love her?
Soldier blue, soldier blue
Can't you see that there's another way to love her?

Blåklokkevikua:
Nå ligg steinrøysa solvarm med fingerstrå,
Blåklokkevikua -
je er heme nå,
Blåklokkevikua -
den var lykka for meg.
Den vi fekk som gave da vi var små.
Blåklokkevikua -
midt i æilt det grå,
Blåklokkevikua -
som jeg lengte mot deg.
Natta bære skumre,
dagen var blå,
og vegen var lett å gå.
Flyge berrføtt i dogg-gras og blåbærlyng.
Blåklokkevikua -
ja, den ler og syng.
Blåklokkevikua -
milla steinrøys og strå,
sitt je i a nå,
je er i a nå.

Misty blue

Oh, it's been a long, long time
Looks like to get you off my mind but I can't
Just the thought of you, ooh, oh babe, just the thought of you
Turns my whole world a misty blue

Just the mention, just the mention of your name, yeah
Turns a flicker to a flame, listen to me good
I think of the things, oh, I think of the things we used to do
And that's when my whole world
Oh, my whole world turns misty blue, yeah

I should forget you, heaven knows I've tried
But when I say I'm glad we're through
My heart, my heart knows I've lied, I've lied
Oh, I'm glad we're through
Yes, but my heart knows, my heart knows I've lied, yes

Just the mention, just the mention of, of your name, yeah
Turns a flicker to a flame, listen to me good
I think of the things, I think of the things we used to do, yeah
That's when my whole world, my whole world turns misty blue
Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah

And I, I should forget you, heaven knows, heaven knows I've tried
But when I say I'm glad we're through
That's when my heart knows
That's when my heart knows that I've lied and I've lied and I lied

Oh, oh, it's been such a long, long, long, long time, babe
Looks like I can't get you
I'm gonna get you off my mind but I can't, oh no
Just the thought of you, just the thought of you
Turns my whole world, it turns my whole world

Just the thought of you, just to think of you
Just the thought of you
Turns my whole world misty, misty blue

Blue Collar Man

Give me a job give me security
Give me a chance to survive
I'm just a poor soul in the unemployment line
My God I'm hardly alive
My mother 'n father, my wife and my friends
You've seen them laugh in my face
But I've got the power and I've got the will
I'm not a charity case

I'll take those long nights, impossible odds
Keeping my eye on the keyhole
If it takes all that to be just what I am
Well I'm gonna be a blue collar man

Make me an offer that I can't refuse
Make me respectable man
This is my last time in the unemployment line
So like it or not

I'll take those long night, impossible odds
Keeping my back to the wall
If it takes all night to be just who I am
Well I'm gonna be a blue collar man

Keeping my mind on a better life
Where happiness is only a heartbeat away
Paradise can it be all I heard it was
I close my eyes and maybe I'm already there
(repeat chorus)

Blue Guitar

Blue guitar,
Fortune of my ways
Making of my days.
New chord,
Counting up the ways
Happiness is lazy.

If you don't know the song,
If you can't put the words to the tune,
Tell the rhyme from the reason,
What should it matter
To the fool or the dreamer?

New hope,
Travellers in a storm,
Finding love is warm.
New day,
The world has just begun,
Our eyes have seen the sun.

If you don't know the way,
If you can't see the wood for the trees,
Taste the wine from the water,
Well, what should it matter,
To the fool or the dreamer?
Songwriters: HAYWARD, DAVID JUSTIN
Blue Guitar lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group