General Chat

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Creedence Clearwater Revival Put a candle in the window, 'cause I feel I've got to move. Though I'm going, going, I'll be coming home soon, 'Long as I can see the light. Pack my bag and let's get moving, 'cause I'm bound to drift a while. When I'm gone, gone, You don't have to worry long, 'Long as I can see the light. Guess I've got that old trav'lin' bone, 'cause this feeling won't leave me alone. But I won't, won't be losing my way, no, no 'Long as I can see the light. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Oh, Yeah! Put a candle in the window, 'cause I feel I've got to move. Though I'm going, going, I'll be coming home soon, Long as I can see the light. Long as I can see the light. Long as I can see the light. Long as I can see the light. Long as I can see the light.

Oh Dee - I learnt this one a few weeks before my son joined the army. It took on new meaning when he left for Australia. It was written by Eric Bogle for his mother Nancy - for when HE left for Australia LEAVING NANCY In comes the train and the whole platform shakes It stops with a shudder and a screaming of brakes The parting has come and my weary soul aches I'm leaving my Nancy, oh But you stand there so calmly determinedly gay You talk of the weather and events of the day And your eyes tell me all that your tongue doesn't say Goodbye my Nancy, oh And come a little closer Put your head upon my shoulder And let me hold you one last time Before the whistle blows My suitcase is lifted and stowed on the train And a thousand regrets whirl around in my brain The ache in my heart is a black sea of pain I'm leaving my Nancy, oh But you stand there beside me so lovely to see The grip of your hand is an unspoken plea You're not fooling yourself and you're not fooling me Goodbye my Nancy, oh And come a little closer Put your head upon my shoulder And let me hold you one last time Before the whistle blows But our time has run out and the whistle has blown Here I must leave you standing alone We had so little time and now the time's gone Goodbye my Nancy, oh And as the train starts gently to roll And as I lean out to wave and to call I see the first tears trickle and fall Goodbye my Nancy, oh And come a little closer Put your head upon my shoulder And let me hold you one last time Before the whistle blows And let me hold you one last time Before the whistle blows

Mike and the Mechanics The Living Years ............... Every generation Blames the one before And all of their frustrations Come beating on your door I know that I’m a prisoner To all my father held so dear I know that I’m a hostage To all his hopes and fears I just wish I could have told him in the living years Crumpled bits of paper Filled with imperfect thought Stilted conversations I’m afraid that’s all we’ve got You say you just don’t see it He says it’s perfect sense You just can’t get agreement In this present tense We all talk a different language Talking in defence Say it loud, say it clear You can listen as well as you hear It’s too late when we die To admit we don’t see eye to eye So we open up a quarrel Between the present and the past We only sacrifice the future It’s the bitterness that lasts So don’t yield to the fortunes You sometimes see as fate It may have a new perspective On a different day And if you don’t give up, and don’t give in You may just be o.k. Say it loud, say it clear You can listen as well as you hear It’s too late when we die To admit we don’t see eye to eye I wasn’t there that morning When my father passed away I didn’t get to tell him All the things I had to say I think I caught his spirit Later that same year I’m sure I heard his echo In my baby’s new born tears I just wish I could have told him in the living years Say it loud, say it clear You can listen as well as you hear It’s too late when we die To admit we don’t see eye to eye

Black Sabbath/Ozzy Osbourne CHANGES I feel unhappy I feel so sad I lost the best friend That I ever had She was my woman I loved her so But it’s too late now I’ve let her go I’m going through changes I’m going through changes We shared the years We shared each day In love together We found a way But soon the world Had it’s evil way My heart was blinded Love went astray I’m going through changes I’m going through changes It took so long To realize That I can still hear Her last goodbyes Now all my days Are filled with tears Wish I could go back And change these years I’m going through changes I’m going through changes

Mr Bo Jangles as sung by Sammy Davis and When I was seventeen by 'Ol blue eyes. Lin XX

Dee, there are two songs that reduce me to tears everytime I hear them- The first reminds me of a close friend who died- NO ONE KNOWS BUT YOU - BETH NIELSEN CHAPMAN I can almost feel you smiling From beyond those silver skies As you watch me finding my way Here without you in my life Chorus: No one knows but you How I feel inside No one knows No one knows but you I've come so close to believing All the echoes in the wind Brushing my hair off my shoulders I feel you there once again Chorus And if there is some magic Some way around these stars Some road that I can travel To get to where you are I'll cry this empty canyon An ocean full of tears And I won't stop believing That your love is always near No one knows but you How I feel inside No one knows No one knows but you and about WW1- No Man's Land - Eric Bogle Well, how'd you do, Private Willie McBride, D'you mind if I sit down down here by your graveside? I'll rest for awhile in the warm summer sun, Been walking all day, Lord, and I'm nearly done. I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916, I hope you died quick and I hope you died 'clean,' Or, Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene? CHORUS: Did they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the fife lowly? Did the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered ye down? Did the bugles sing 'The Last Post' in chorus? Did the pipes play the 'Floors1 O' The Forest'? And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined? And, though you died back in 1916, To that loyal heart are you forever nineteen? Or are you a stranger, without even a name, Forever enshrined behind some glass pane, In an old photograph, torn and tattered and stained, And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame? Well, the sun's shining down on these green fields of France; The warm wind blows gently, the red poppies dance. The trenches have vanished long under the plow; No gas and no barbed wire, no guns firing now. But here in this graveyard it's still No Man's Land; The countless white crosses in mute witness stand To man's blind indifference to his fellow man. And a whole generation who were butchered and damned. And I can't help but wonder now, Willie McBride, Do all those who lie here know why they died? Did you really believe them when they told you 'the cause?' Did you really believe that this war would end wars? Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame, The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain, For Willie McBride, it's all happened again, And again, and again, and again, and again. Gwynne

Anne - do you have any spare tissues there???? can hardly see the screen

oh Gwynne - Willie McBride - was my daddys favourite - and it was the first thing my daughter daughter taught herself to play on the guitar.

How strange that 2 people pick the wonderful Eric Bogle. But maybe not so strange he is brilliant - nearly all his stuff has me sobbing. Gwynne

Oh Anne, same here every time.....and my Dad is still with me, goodness knows how i will feel when he isn't!! Yvette

Gwynne - I have sung in a concert with his cousin the Revd Albert Bogle. I love Eric Bogle stuff - it always hits a chord so to speak

Because of you - Kelly Clarkson I will not make the same mistakes that you did I will not let myself cause my heart so much misery I will not break the way you did You fell so hard I've learned the hard way, to never let it get that far Because of you I never stray too far from the sidewalk Because of you I learned to play on the safe side So I don't get hurt Because of you I find it hard to trust Not only me, but everyone around me Because of you I am afraid I lose my way And it's not too long before you point it out I cannot cry Because I know that's weakness in your eyes I'm forced to fake, a smile, a laugh Every day of my life My heart can't possibly break When it wasn't even whole to start with Because of you I never stray too far from the sidewalk Because of you I learned to play on the safe side So I don't get hurt Because of you I find it hard to trust Not only me, but everyone around me Because of you I am afraid I watched you die I heard you cry Every night in your sleep I was so young You should have known better than to lean on me You never thought of anyone else You just saw your pain And now I cry In the middle of the night For the same damn thing Because of you I never stray too far from the sidewalk Because of you I learned to play on the safe side So I don't get hurt Because of you I tried my hardest just to forget everything Because of you I don't know how to let anyone else in Because of you I'm ashamed of my life because it's empty Because of you I am afraid Because of you Because of you

Even Now ( Barry Manilow ) Even now when there's someone else who cares When there's someone home who's waiting just for me Even now I think about you as I'm climbin' up the stairs And I wonder what to do so she won't see That even now when I know it wasn't right And I've found a better life than what we had Even now I wake up cryin' in the middle of the night And I can't believe it still could hurt so bad Even now when I have come so far I wonder where you are, I wonder why it's still so hard without you Even now when I come shining through, I swear I think of you And how I wish you knew, even now Even now when I never hear your name And the world has changed so much since you've been gone Even now I still remember and the feeling's still the same And this pain inside of me goes on and on, even now Even now when I have come so far I wonder where you are I wonder why it's still so hard without you Even now when I come shinin' through I swear I think of you and God, I wish you knew Somehow, even now Sue xx

Sheila, I'm a bit of a geek as far as Eric is concerned I have all his stuff. If his brother is half as good as he is it must have been a great night. Gwynne

Currently this one makes me cry: Coldplay - Fix You When you try your best but you don’t succeed When you get what you want but not what you need When you feel so tired but you can’t sleep Stuck in reverse And the tears come streaming down your face When you lose something you can’t replace When you love someone but it goes to waste Could it be worse Lights will guide you home And ignite your bones And I will try to fix you And high up above or down below When you’re too in love to let it go But if you never try you’ll never know Just what you’re worth Lights will guide you home And ignite your bones And I will try to fix you Tears stream down your face When you lose something you cannot replace Tears stream down your face And i… Tears stream down your face I promise you I will learn from my mistakes Tears stream down your face And i… Lights will guide you home And ignite your bones And I will try to fix you

Several that remind me of grandad.. danny boy, take me ome again Kathleen and hoplessly devoted to you. Also the old rugged cross.

Luther Vandross - Dance With My Father Back when I was a child, before life removed all the innocence My father would lift me high and dance with my mother and me and then Spin me around ‘til I fell asleep Then up the stairs he would carry me And I knew for sure I was loved If I could get another chance, another walk, another dance with him I’d play a song that would never, ever end How I’d love, love, love To dance with my father again When I and my mother would disagree To get my way, I would run from her to him He’d make me laugh just to comfort me Then finally make me do just what my mama said Later that night when I was asleep He left a dollar under my sheet Never dreamed that he would be gone from me If I could steal one final glance, one final step, one final dance with him I’d play a song that would never, ever end ‘Cause I’d love, love, love To dance with my father again Sometimes I’d listen outside her door And I’d hear how my mother cried for him I pray for her even more than me I pray for her even more than me I know I’m praying for much too much But could you send back the only man she loved I know you don’t do it usually But dear Lord she’s dying To dance with my father again Every night I fall asleep and this is all I ever dream

Shelli, if you go to http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/o/r/oruggedc.htm you can hear the music The pastor at the home my Dad ended his days in always played that one and I am now in tears again Dee On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross, The emblem of suffering and shame; And I love that old cross where the dearest and best For a world of lost sinners was slain. Refrain So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross, Till my trophies at last I lay down; I will cling to the old rugged cross, And exchange it some day for a crown. O that old rugged cross, so despised by the world, Has a wondrous attraction for me; For the dear Lamb of God left His glory above To bear it to dark Calvary. Refrain In that old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine, A wondrous beauty I see, For ’twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died, To pardon and sanctify me. Refrain To the old rugged cross I will ever be true; Its shame and reproach gladly bear; Then He’ll call me some day to my home far away, Where His glory forever I’ll share. Refrain

Does anyone else remember the late John Peel breaking down in tears on TV over this one? Father and Son - Cat Stevens Father- It’s not time to make a change, Just relax, take it easy. You’re still young, that’s your fault, There’s so much you have to know. Find a girl, settle down, If you want you can marry. Look at me, I am old, but I’m happy. I was once like you are now, and I know that it’s not easy, To be calm when you’ve found something going on. But take your time, think a lot, Why, think of everything you’ve got. For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not. Son - How can I try to explain, when I do he turns away again. It’s always been the same, same old story. From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen. Now there’s a way and I know that I have to go away. I know I have to go. Father - It’s not time to make a change, Just sit down, take it slowly. You’re still young, that’s your fault, There’s so much you have to go through. Find a girl, settle down, If you want you can marry. Look at me, I am old, but I’m happy. (son-- away away away, I know I have to Make this decision alone - no) Son - All the times that I cried, keeping all the things I knew inside, It’s hard, but it’s harder to ignore it. If they were right, I’d agree, but it’s them you know not me. Now there’s a way and I know that I have to go away. I know I have to go. (father-- stay stay stay, why must you go and Make this decision alone? ) Gwynne