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"Bitter Green" is a song by Gordon Lightfoot,〔 first released in 1968 on his album ''Back Here on Earth''. The single reached #44 in Canada.〔 Lightfoot also included the song on his 1969 live album ''Sunday Concert'', and recorded a second studio version for his 1975 compilation album ''Gord's Gold''. A cover version by Ronnie Hawkins reached #36 in 1970. The Idle Race recorded a version of the song on their 1971 album ''Time Is''. ==Content== The song is a ballad about a woman who roams the hillsides above the town for years waiting for her lover to come home:
No one knows the identity or fate of her lover, but the woman is well known and loved. Years later, on one cold autumn day, a stranger walks into town and weeps at the churchyard where his beloved lies buried. Townspeople speculate as to who the mystery man is: ''Some say he was a sailor who died away at sea'' Her lover finally returns, too late, as the woman has died:
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