smoke ring days

0Beats me. Did you ever try to blow smoke rings in a wind storm?02br
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00Oh darn! I try to be a smart-*** and it's your first post. 01b01u00WELCOME TO THE FORUMS ! ! !02u02b02br
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0so smoke rings are realy rings of smoke, i gass it was a expression with a especific meaning.02br
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0There may well be a double meaning here that I'm not aware of re the expression "smoke ring days." I've personally never heard it, but would enjoy hearing from anyone who has. People who are not "master songwriters" often struggle to find words to match the notes, and come up with some interesting phrases. Smoking is not as popular now as it was. I knew a girl in college in the 50's who woul

0 Far from representing a struggle, Avangi, 05100l thinks the lyric is pure genius. Apparently this is a Neil Young creation: 01blockquote

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0Hi Del, 02br
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00Ouch! I was playing some rock bass back when Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were cookin'. My thought didn't actually come out right. I started by trying to say that poetry doesn't have to make sense syntactically, or even logically, on the denotative level - but I gave up on it. It was not my intention that the "master songwriter" bit should dominat

0i think i used the wrong exemple. my doubt appears becouse of on the way home lyrics. i know lyrics and poetry don't need to have a sense, but in my thought that phrase had a especif meaning. i'm a brazilian trying to learn english.02br
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00so i understand that is: is a ring of smoke (that someone blowed) in a day that wind is blowing.02br
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0Y'all, the "smoke ring day" confused me too. I can understand a "work day" or "travel day" but a day set aside for blowing smoke rings?02br
00 Avangi, I hope you know I was kidding. You have to realize that I live in a state whose unofficial anthem contains the lyric, "I heard Mister Young sing about her/ I heard old Neil put her down/ Well, I hope Neil Young will remember/ A southe

0Hi, Wearex. Probably not a great idea to use blank verse as a model for phrase construction.02br
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00Having lived with this for a couple of days, I'm wondering if "a smoke ring day" is simply a perfect day for blowing smoke rings. Everything is beautiful, you're blowing some great ones, you seem to have everything under control - and then the wind comes along and mes

Just a guess, becasue this is perhaps my favorite lyric of all time. If one inserts a few words "like a smoke ring <ON A> day when the wind blows, it makes perfect sense given the context of the song. The words are omitted to keep the meter of the verse. This song was Neils kiss-off to Buffalo Springfield, and a stunning lyric IMHO. ~Dave in Nashville~

Hey!
I think you'll find it's a song written by Neil Young... who by the way is an amazing artist, lyrical genius & not afraid of saying what needs to be said... check out Ohio, Cortez The Killer & Let's Impeach The President!

The term 'smoke ring day' does as it suggest involve smoke; of the mind altering variety...
It's a turn of phrase to suggest intoxication, a 'Hazy Jane' kin