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Thursday, June 10, 2010
New Amsterdam
Following on from last week's British Sea Power song, here's another namechecking Rotherhithe. New Amsterdam by Elvis Costello is obviously about New York, but reflects on its connection with other port cities:
Somehow I found myself down at the dockside
Thinking of the old days of Liverpool and Rotherhithe
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