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Rechtop in de wind
"Rechtop in de wind" ("Upright in the wind") was the Dutch entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987, performed in Dutch by Marcha, accompanied on stage by Marjolein Keuning, Yolanda Smit, Guus Westdorp, Cees Stolk and Paul Klooté.
The song is a dramatic ballad, sung from the perspective of a woman whose relationship has just ended. Marcha describes her feelings as the relationship ends, and goes on to sing that she told herself to be strong and to stand
"Indians"". The lyric also contains a description of the singer being attracted on ""Friday the Thirteenth"", to a sixteen-year-old girl. Plastic Bertrand also recorded an English-language version of the song, however retaining its original French title; "Amour, Amour".
The song was performed thirteenth on the night, following the Netherlands' Marcha with "Rechtop in de wind" and preceding the United Kingdom's Rikki with "Only the Light". At the close of