Prairies (UK /ˈprɛər.i/ or US /ˈprɛr.i/) are considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type. Temperate grassland regions include the Pampas of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay as well as the steppes of Eurasia.
Lands typically referred to as "prairie" tend to be in North America. The term encompasses the area referred to as the Interior Lowlands of the United States, Canada and Mexico, which includes all of the Great Plains as well as the wetter, somewhat hillier land to the east. In the U.S., the area is constituted by most or all of the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma, and sizable parts of the states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and western and southern Minnesota. The Central Valley of California is also a prairie. The Canadian Prairies occupy vast areas of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.
Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE (born 12 August 1949) is a Scottish-born British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and film score composer. He is best known as the lead guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the British rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded in 1977. After Dire Straits disbanded in 1995, Knopfler went on to record and produce six solo albums, including Golden Heart (1996), Sailing to Philadelphia (2000), and Get Lucky (2009). He has composed and produced film scores for eight films, including Local Hero (1983), Cal (1984), and The Princess Bride (1987). In addition to his work with Dire Straits and as a solo artist and composer, Knopfler has recorded and performed with many prominent musical artists, including Phil Lynott, Chet Atkins, The Chieftains, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Jools Holland, Sonny Landreth, and Van Morrison. He has produced albums for Tina Turner, Bob Dylan, and Randy Newman.
Knopfler is one of the most respected fingerstyle guitarists of the modern rock era, and was ranked 27th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Knopfler and Dire Straits have sold in excess of 120 million albums to date. A four-time Grammy Award winner, Knopfler is the recipient of the Edison Award and the Steiger Award, and holds three honorary doctorate degrees in music from universities in the United Kingdom.
Last night as I lay dreaming of pleasant days gone by
Me mind being bent on rambling, to Ireland I did fly
I stepped on board a vision, and I followed with a will
'Til next I came to anchor at the cross at Spancil Hill
It being on the 23rd of June, the day before the fair
When Ireland's sons and daughters and friends assembled there
The young, the old, the brave and the bold came, their duty to fulfill
At the parish church in Clooney, a mile from Spancil Hill
I went to see me neighbors, to see what they might say
The old ones were all dead and gone, the young ones turning gray
But I met the tailor Quigley, he's as bold as ever still
Ah, he used to mend me britches when I lived in Spancil Hill
I paid a flying visit to my first and only love
She's as white as any lily, gentle as a dove
And she threw her arms around me saying, "Johnny, I love you still"
As she's Nell the farmer's daughter and the pride of Spancil Hill
I dreamed I held and kissed her as in the days of yore
Ah Johnny, you're only jokin', as many's the time before
Then the cock, he crew in the morning, he crew both loud and shrill
Imaginem a paz e o amor
Diferenças de credo ou de cor
Esquecer todo o ódio e rancor
Que existe entre nós
Imaginem um mundo sem guerra
Onde a arma usada é o amor
Todos juntos unidos num só
Em um só coração
É só imaginar um mundo melhor
Que a estória eu já sei de cór
Esperar, conseguir um final feliz
É só imaginar
(Zé Ramalho)
Só lembrar que um poeta escreveu
Eu não sou apenas um sonhador
Sei que já não estou mais sozinho, nesse sonho bom
Ss você quiser compreender o futuro depende de nós
De mãos dadas seguir o caminho, o caminho da paz
É só imaginar um mundo melhor
Que a estória eu já sei de cór
Esperar, conseguir um final feliz
É só imaginar
Estou sentindo uma dor que é maior que o peito
Essa dor de amor que nada dá jeito
A saudade invade chorando na falta de outra metade
(Que é você)
Perdida por outra cidade, estado ou país
Amor distante e ainda em verso errante
Metade que tá separada por não saber que é amar
Amor, hoje eu sei outra metade de alguém
Ah... que sorte infeliz daquele que ama
Sem saber que a chama de um grande amor nunca se apaga
Ah... que sorte infeliz daquele que ama
Vagaremos sem rumo e sem destino
À procura de um caminho
Alguém que possa matar esta saudade
(Só você)
Que não tem tempo e nem idade
E não perdôa a distância e o seu mar é a perseverança
Relembrar-te a todo instante de um amor errante
E que embora distante estará sempre presente
Em seu, em seu coração
O sol brilhou
Na vermelha do centro
Altas ondas
Estão pra chegar
(Swell vai entrar)
Pepeu já prepara
Um grande luau
(Um grande luau)
A noite do forró
Vai ser muito astral
A magia de Ubatuba
Dentro de um tubo
Chamado Itamambuca
Vejo você sorrindo pra mim
Gatinha dengosa
Muito gostosa
Dizendo que sim
Amigo Pepeu
Acenda a fogueira
(Só a fogueira?)
Chegou a viola forrozeira
Eu sou da Bahia de São Salvador
Ubatuba
Terra que rezava amor
...chegou a sanfona forrozeira
Eu sou da Bahia de São Salvador
Ubatuba...
Vento forte que chega do sul
A onda perfeita já vai entrar
O mar desceu, o frio, o céu azul
Quem vem de fora, nem quer tentar
O mas desceu, o frio, o céu azul
Quem vem de fora, nem quer tentar
Vento, me traga sorte
A estrela que brilha do Norte
No mar o dia todo até o pôr-do-Sol
Depois cantar a noite inteira até de manhã
No mar o dia todo até o pôr-do-Sol
Depois cantar a noite inteira até de manhã
Swell empurra as ondas que faz emagrecer
Não se impressione com o barulho que faz
Menina, que esse vento não te espante, não
Por que eu espero conquistar o seu coração
Seu coração, seu coração, vento
Hook:
This is the highest cost, take you and make you off
Left you and leave you lost, well you forget that.
This is the highest cost, take you and make you off
Left you and leave you lost, well you forget that.
Stopping all the grieving love the hate what you believe in
you can have my heart just take it to leave it,
give it all on for one, one for all time seek
I know you heard them talking about how the old time gray
so we should take it back to the 99 days,
PS I'll be your sunshine and you could be raise,
I'm feeling this way too long for it to be your face..chapter,
so skip to the happily every after
please dreams are fame, you're still my biggest fantasy,
we're connected I'm a came to see,
it's not a tough question at all,
can I call you? just answer me, just answer me
Goldy locks I could be your big papa bear with me
I bear the light if you don't share the sticky
so term, long term you can't forget me, the G
Hook:
This is the highest cost, take you and make you off
Left you and leave you lost, well you forget that.
This is the highest cost, take you and make you off
Left you and leave you lost, well you forget that.
I guess I gotta say this wish is vanished like girl,
let em know who your man is, tryin to use my manage
you did it one a companion, f*ck you from sexes,
sexes we keep you guessing, and I probably got you stressing
when I'm not a thing ..shit,
but you could find me in dimensions, tryin to ..make my heads spin
old chickens when the ex time to head spin,
trust to use your bitches, court sleeping for attention,
say she gotta be willin with respect if you diamond with your neck
it will diamond on your necklace
she can swallow if you.. knockin them more down,
diming more effect shit,
yeah I got some ..shoes,
but I want the lusty shoes enough to f*ck with you like
I know you're hurt but you love the way you take em
so I guess it's .. so I love the way you pickle.
[Hook:]
And I won't forget you when I don't regret you
even though I wasn't on your mind that times I missed you
I still appreciate in all the times we've been through
to stealing with your mind such a complex mental,
with the smile so fine, I wanna find..
I know what curse well, used to draw her stamptial
went to shop my..with the things with you two
but she always seeing different I'm too dead to be true,
I will start it all friends in the mid of the school
now I'm touching the heart from inside of this book
reaching out till them stars like she wanted to stoo
so even though I love loss can I heat it on you
and I know you won't front 'cause you know my ..through
so could I tell you was gone,
so could I tell you was gone when I give you that U