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    Quote Originally Posted by IrishLauraDD View Post
    we must start in leith. thats where they started.

    if someone asked me to walk a thoooooosand miles? nah. unless there was an emerald the size and cost of a third world countries GPA
    Did you ever think there might be a Leith in America


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    I suppose that if you walked over all the peaks in the Scottish Highlands you could clock up 1000 miles and it would be more difficult than walking in a straight line on level ground, now that would be really showing your girl how much she means to ye :-)


    Then again they could have said it when they were drunk ?

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    Prue Leith is English, I think although the Reid twins may not have been into cookbooks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by willie wacker View Post
    Did you ever think there might be a Leith in America
    yeah but were starting in leith with the proclaimers boys.

    im gunna follow them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alcatel View Post
    Prue Leith is English, I think although the Reid twins may not have been into cookbooks.
    What about The Sunshine on Leith?


    Sorry don't have a link:-(

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    this man understands.

    DEPTH.

    were swimming in it it here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by walter View Post
    The guy talks about the miles he will walk and the pennies that he will earn. This suggests that he is British and will be walking somewhere in Britain. He doesn't say that he is walking in a straight line. Maybe she lives next door to him. And he also doesn't say it, but maybe he is chronically shy and so walks to and fro from Leith to Durham before summoning up the courage to walk up her garden path and knock on her front door? I know its a lot of walking but thats what love is all about, isn't it? Showing up in your Charlie Chaplin shoes, puce faced, fit to drop, barely able to mumble the greeting you have been thinking about for the last week as you trekked around the border counties?
    Pretty much what I was thinking, don't assume the lovestruck or lovelorn are thinking straight or walking in straight lines.
    And maybe she is indifferent or doesn't even know, unrequited love from afar, kind of thing.
    A proffession of love and the willingness to suffer hardship for that love, that might be falling on an unhearing or unknowing ear.
    Theoretical walking to prove themselves to a theoretical love.
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    Shalom/salaam.
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    Quote Originally Posted by IrishLauraDD View Post
    where were The Proclaimers actually walking to?



    or, do you suppose they didnt really mean theyd do all that walking and just get the bus and when they get there just run around a bit til they got all sweaty?

    did she really want to be the woman of a man who walked a thousand miles just to fall down at her door?

    never really thought about how deep this song is.

    was it all just lies, hyperbole and disinterest?
    They were not walking anywhere.
    This song is about being devoted to a woman and wanting to spend the rest of your life with her, hence walking 500 miles or 500 more to be that man that falls down at your door.


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    Quote Originally Posted by walter View Post
    The guy talks about the miles he will walk and the pennies that he will earn. This suggests that he is British and will be walking somewhere in Britain. He doesn't say that he is walking in a straight line. Maybe she lives next door to him. And he also doesn't say it, but maybe he is chronically shy and so walks to and fro from Leith to Durham before summoning up the courage to walk up her garden path and knock on her front door? I know its a lot of walking but thats what love is all about, isn't it? Showing up in your Charlie Chaplin shoes, puce faced, fit to drop, barely able to mumble the greeting you have been thinking about for the last week as you trekked around the border counties?
    Nah he is Scottish. In the line "I'm gonna be the one who's havering for you," 'havering' means babbling on in Scotland.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bongo View Post
    They were not walking anywhere.
    This song is about being devoted to a woman and wanting to spend the rest of your life with her, hence walking 500 miles or 500 more to be that man that falls down at your door.

    That's the general gist of the song, yeah, the idea of it. But it's only a guideline, like anything in life. The song is what you make of it, what you hear and what story it builds in your head. You need to be doing some out of the box thinking, and we all need to be listening to some different songs.

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