--- Kakki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Well, I have to make an admission here - when I
> first heard the song and
> read the lyrics I thought she was referring to the
> Spanish Steps in downtown
> L.A. where there used to be a black man who stood
> nearby everyday with
> flowers in his hair and who sometimes serenaded the
> noontime lunch crowd
> passing by on saxophone! Other times he would just
> sing out something from
> like Stevie Wonder. He was always joyful and
> definitely drank in the crowd
> like oxygen. Maybe it's Joni's duality at work
> again. I definitely could
> adapt the song to my own experiences ;-)
>
Kakki, are you serious? If so, that's probably it. I
would have thought Rome too, but this sounds like the
very guy Joni's singing about.
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