Day 3 - A Song That Makes You Happy

So not quite Day 3, after travelling it has taken me a little while to find the time!

Now this was a song that I had obviously heard before but it hadn't really made such an impact as it has recently.

when we lived in Wales a popular TV series began called Gavin and Stacey. Fantastic series, very funny!!! When we then moved to Saudi it was in it's final series, so we managed to watch it on download. Eased the homesickness! Bryn and Nessa did a cover of this song, so perfectly executed and hilarious!!!

I hadn't thought much more about this song until a few months ago. We introduced the series to Erika. not in reality we didn't think she would get it. It is very British - moreso the cultural divide between England and Wales! But she did get it and we spent night after night falling about in laughter watching it (with the odd translation for Erika!!)

This time round the Nessa and Bryn song had a totally different impact on us, absolute hilarity!! And ever since these marvellous evenings spent with Erika I smile with a thousand memories at the sound of this song! This song will always make me smile, will always remind me of Erika and the time we spent together in Saudi and always remind me of friendship and the fun times had and the fun times to be had!

I would, if I could, choose the Nessa and Bryn version but there doesn't seem to be a full version so I have chosen the original.

the song - Islands In The Stream - Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers.





Baby when I met you
there was peace unknown
I set out to get you
with a fine tooth comb
I was soft inside
there was somethin' going on

You do something to me
that I can't explain
Hold me closer and I feel no pain
Every beat of my heart
We got somethin' goin on

Tender love is blind
It requires a dedication
All this love we feel
Needs no conversation
We ride it together, ah-ah
Makin' love with each other, ah-ah

(chorus)
Islands in the stream
That is what we are
No one in between
How can we be wrong?
Sail away with me to another world
And we rely on each other, ah-ah
From one lover to another, ah-ah

I can't live without you
if the love was gone
Everything is nothin'
if you got no one
And you did walk in tonight
slowly losing sight of the real thing

But that wont happen to us
and we got no doubt
Too deep in love and
we got no way out
and the message is clear
This could be the year
for the real thing

No more will you cry
Baby I will hurt you never
We start and end as one
in love forever
We can ride it together, ah-ah
Makin' love with each other, ah-ah

(chorus)

Sail away
Oh come sail away with me, with me

(chorus)

(repeat to fade)