Stevie Nicks Just Heard a White Winged Dove for the First Time, 40 Years After Writing ‘Edge of Seventeen’

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Stevie Nicks Just Heard a White Winged Dove for the First Time, 40 Years After Writing ‘Edge of Seventeen’

Stevie Nicks shared a touching story on social media Tuesday, revealing something no one could have thought possible. Forty years after writing the classic “Edge of Seventeen”, which begins with the lyric, “just like a white winged dove/sings a song/sounds like she’s singing’/whoo – whoo-whoo,” Nicks has finally heard a dove sing for the first time.

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.

— Stevie Nicks (@StevieNicks) April 7, 2020

I started to cry. This dove had come here to watch over me.
So we filmed her singing her song & I’m sending her out to you.

With love,
Stevie Nicks

p.s. She’s been here for days. I think she’s here for good

— Stevie Nicks (@StevieNicks) April 7, 2020

Nicks explained: “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,” she added. “This dove had come here to watch over me.
So we filmed her singing her song & I’m sending her out to you. With love, Stevie Nicks. p.s. She’s been here for days. I think she’s here for good.”

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