Monthly Archives: August 2010

As far back as I can remember there has always been a poem, a rhyme, or a song swimming around in my head with the word blue in the lines. There were 11,029 song lyrics which contained the word blue on Google today when I checked. Blue illustrates a mood, feeling or sentiment as well as to characterize the window to the soul or the eyes. Calm, cool and collected and as cool as the other side of the pillow describes blue.

Little Boy Blue come blow your horn,

The sheep’s in the meadow the cow’s in the corn

Lavender’s blue, dilly dilly

Lavender’s green

When you are King, dilly dilly

I shall be Queen.

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

Sugar is sweet;

And so are you.

Don’t it make my brown eyes blue –Crystal Gayle

Blue moon

You saw me standing there without a dream in my heart

Without a love of my own –Richard Rodgers and Lawrenz Hart

Love is like a dying ember only memories remain

And through the ages I remember

Blue eyes crying in the rain –Fred Rose

The tables are empty

The dance floor is deserted

You play the same love songs

It’s the tenth time you’ve heard it.

That’s the beginning just one of the clues

But you’re on the right track for

Learnin’ the Blues –Frank Sinatra

I got my thrill on blueberry hill –Al Lewis and Larry Stock

Blue, blue windows behind the stars –Neil Young

Well, it’s one for the money,

Two for the show,

Three to get ready,

Now go, cat, go.

But don’t you step on my blue suede shoes.

You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes.—Roy Orbison

Blue, songs are like tattoos

You know I’ve been to sea before

Crown and anchor me

or let me sail away

Hey Blue, There is a song for you –Joni Mitchell

Like a heavenly sky, or a  blue, darkly, deeply, beautiful blue sea,  the color blue is calming.  Blue is cooling, comforting, peaceful and serene.  Blue is a primary color and sits between green and violet on the color wheel. Blue is a cool color and will recede from the eye  producing a sense of space. The color blue promotes an inner calmness which makes it a good color for an office, study, bedroom or bath. Some of the many versions of blue are: aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, ball blue, blue-gray, blue-green, blue-violet, cerulean, cobalt, cornflower blue, cyan, midnight blue, navy blue, French blue, lapis, powder blue, sky blue, robins egg blue, royal blue, teal, and turquoise.

Some colors to mix with blue for an appealing color scheme and attractive space are: blue and white, blue and cream, blue and yellow, blue and pink, blue and its complement orange, blue and violet and blue and green.

As I was walking away

I heard her say over my shoulder

We’ll meet again someday on the avenue

Tangled up in blue – Bob Dylan