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A long way to go - 1973
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And when we met I never dreamed there'd be a day leaving you would leave my pillow wet...
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Hi folks. I have added a lot of videos recently. Please take a look!
Hi folks, This site acts as a personal archive of my work. So you'll find my best recordings here as well as some pretty crappy ones. The earliest recordings here were made on simple cassette decks, others were made on mobile phones, some are live recordings made at various gigs over the years, a handful were made in small recording studios, but most of the more recent ones were made at home on a Zoom portable studio, which itself is now rather ancient! If you like a song and want to download it, click on 'Full song info' for that song and you will see the download link. You can also read the lyrics and any background information on the songs that I may have added. All my music is available for free - enjoy :) cheers, Charles
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Author
Charles Cornelius Tyler
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Charles Cornelius Tyler
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August 16, 2008
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MP3 6.3 MB • 128 kbps • 6:55
Story behind the song
This was written in relation to my first Asian friend... a Malay Malaysian called Hamid. I met Hamid at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth where we were both studying librarianship. This led to me spending 1972 living in Kuala Lumpur. In the picture we are in his home village of Tanjong Malim. The lyric reflects the Hindu philosophy I picked up in Malaysia and India that year. The recording was made in my flat in Shepherd's Bush, London in 1973 on a small cassette deck.
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When you and I were young I didn't know you - you didn't know me But on the threads our lives were hung Even though you lived so far away And when we met I never dreamed there'd be a day Leaving you would leave my pillow wet Oh but the future we just can't see We're destined to meet - destined to part Well it's something we did somewhere When it was - or who I was I don't remember And when we've done what we came here to do We'll be together by being one With no tears And no fears of being two Well it's easy to say Harder to do To the sea all the rivers flow But we've still got a long way to go A long way to go A long way to go America Australia India Malaysia...
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