About 300 people made it to the State Library and Museum yesterday to kick off the state’s 375th anniversary celebration.
State Troubador Lara Herscovitch sang this tune, but the Blogster was unable to catch all the words. So she was nice enough to pass along a copy of her song “Connecticut Skies.”
Here it is:
Don¹t need the Midnight Train to Georgia
Not going to Carolina in My Mind
We¹ve got 250 miles of salt air, sand and shoreline
And 700 more of mountains
Or we¹ll meet on an Elm City street
With as many different people as October leaves
(chorus)
We are the neighbor right next door
And a wonderful world away
We stay by the long tidal riverside*
Under Connecticut skies
It¹s not Sweet Home Alabama
Not another yellow Texas rose
It¹s 250,000 mile fences of stone
The Northeast wind carries woodsmoke
As we watch the snow fall to the ground
Somehow just like magic everything slows down
(chorus)
No matter how far I fly I¹ll still return to your eyes
By the spider web of winding river roads
Cause my home is by your side
(chorus)
(reprise)
We are the neighbor to Boston and New York
And a wonderful world away
We stay by the long tidal riverside
Under Connecticut skies
*Quinnitukqut = Mohegan word for ³by the long tidal river²
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