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Originally Posted by Oh, Linda
I enjoyed reading your review! I wanted to make a comment about the song If Children Had Wings since he sang it in Kalamazoo too. He did so without an introduction and as he began I heard the woman on my left comment to her friend she'd never heard the song before. I quietly explained a bit of the song's history to her, that he wrote it for his children as you noted. Not too long into the song she reached into her purse for a tissue .... she cried throughout the remainder of the song, dabbing away tears, and into part of IYCRMM which followed. I remember doing the same thing the first time I heard it too. I can't imagine how he must have felt at the time he wrote it. And all these years later to be able to stand on stage and sing it . . . .
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Thank you for your comments. I had never heard it live and was SO disappointed when he didn't do it at the Peoria show after it was in all the other setlists. It's such a lovely song and the band does such a gorgeous job with it. I had piano lessons for years and still play but I taught myself the guitar (to a certain level) because I wanted to be able to play Gord's music. And I love to play and sing that song.
I'm going to the St. Louis and Kansas City shows this week and I hope to hear it at least once more so I can kind of nail down the new lyrics.