Stevie Nicks Hears a Dove Sing For the First Time [VIDEO]

It’s only the chorus to one of her biggest solo hits, “Edge of Seventeen.”

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singing
Who who who

Well, it turns out Stevie Nicks had never actually heard a dove sing until just this week.

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In 1980 I was flying home from Phoenix Arizona and I was handed a menu that said, “The white wing dove sings a song that sounds like she’s singing ooh, ooh, ooh. She makes her home here in the great Saguaro cactus that provides shelter and protection for her…” As you well know, I was very taken with that whole picture and went on to write “Edge of Seventeen.” But over the last 40 years I can honestly say, I have never heard a dove sing~ until now. Several days ago, outside my room, I started to hear the sound of a bird singing the same thing over and over. One little Ahhh~ and then three OOH’s~ over and over again. I thought it was an owl, but a friend said, “No, that’s a dove!” I started to cry. This dove had come here to watch over me. So we filmed her singing her song and I am sending her out to you. With love, Stevie Nicks p.s. She has been here for days. I think she’s here for good.

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The Fleetwood Mac singer posted a video to her Instagram account this week showing the first dove she’d ever actually heard and telling the origin of the song.

Nicks explains that the lyrics had been inspired by a bit of information on a menu she’d been handed in 1980:

“The white wing dove sings a song that sounds like she’s singing ooh, ooh, ooh. She makes her home here in the great Saguaro cactus that provides shelter and protection for her…”

And from that, Stevie was inspired to write “Edge of Seventeen.”

It makes us wonder if Prince had ever actually heard a dove cry.

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