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Jesse Joe · 07-13-2006, 06:08 AM

Welcome to Corfid teatimeforme,

I always thought that Bitter Green was written about a waitress, working in a seaport restaurant, where she served sailors. And one sailor being her lover was lost at sea.

I heard this somewhere's, but I might be wrong as I often am.

But in the songbook, Gordon Lightfoot himself has this to say about it."Written in a noisy diesel taxicab on the way in [to London] from Heathrow. My wife adopted that as her song after our divorce. I went over to London to write the album, to jog my mind into a writting space."

07-13-2006, 06:08 AM	#4
Jesse Joe Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 6,862	Welcome to Corfid teatimeforme, I always thought that Bitter Green was written about a waitress, working in a seaport restaurant, where she served sailors. And one sailor being her lover was lost at sea. I heard this somewhere's, but I might be wrong as I often am. But in the songbook, Gordon Lightfoot himself has this to say about it."Written in a noisy diesel taxicab on the way in [to London] from Heathrow. My wife adopted that as her song after our divorce. I went over to London to write the album, to jog my mind into a writting space."