Island

Topic or word. Island (even figurative), isle, the name of an island, or a clear reference to an island.


16 comments:

Ellen (nursescrubs) said...

Puerto Rico
You lovely island
Island of tropical breezes

(Bernstein/Sondheim, from "West Side Story")

HoosierNan said...

Bermuda, Bahama, oh, pretty mama!
Montego, [forget the next one],
Oh, I'm gonna take you down to Kokomo;
We'll get there fast, then we'll take it slow.

--Beach Boys, "Kokomo." (Not the Kokomo where I grew up, in Indiana.)

Sandra Dodd said...

The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle
With Gilligan, the Skipper too
The Millionaire and his wife
The movie star, the professor and Mary Ann
Here on Gilligan's Isle

Sarah said...

Islands in the stream
That is what we are

Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers

Sandra Dodd said...

I am a rock, I am an island
And a rock never cries
And an island feels no pain

Paul Simon, when he was young...

HoosierNan said...

And we sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle.

--Heard once, many years ago, on "The Thistle and Shamrock." Long sea chanty about a group of monks and knights off to establish a monastery, who had adventures along the way. Including slaying and EATING a dragon--first I ever heard of people eating dragon meat!

Sandra Dodd said...

She came from Providence
The one in Rhode Island
....
You can leave it all behind
Sail to Lahaina...

The Eagles, "The Last Resort
I always liked that that song started with an island (kind of) and ended with one.

Sally said...

I'll send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
Message in a Bottle

The Police

Shanona Ryder said...

Tropical the island breeze
all of nature wild and free
this is where I long to be
la isla bonita...

---Madonna

Sally said...

And worry our boat'll start to drift
And float us out to sea
And land us on an isle of gold
Oh, dear, oh, dearie me

"Fine White Horse" from "The Secret Garden"

Sylvia said...

Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams;
the islands and bays are for sportsmen.

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Gordon Lightfoot

Ellen (nursescrubs) said...

We'll take Manhattan
The Bronx and Staten Island too

(Rodgers/Hart)

Ellen (nursescrubs) said...

But you
You come from Rhode Island
And little old Rhode Island
Is famous for you

(Dietz/Schwartz)

HoosierNan said...

From California, to the New York Island.
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters.
This land was made for you and me.

--Woody Guthrie

Deborah (Sydney) said...

Because those green hills are not highland hills
Or the island hills; they’re not my land’s hills.
And fair as these green foreign hills may be
They are not the hills of home.

A Scottish Soldier - Andy Stewart

ps pirro said...

Don't want to land on
Three Mile Island
Don't want to see my
skin aglow.


Volcano
Jimmy Buffet