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Going For A Song
04:42
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I'm going for a song so I hope that you can hear me
I only wrote it yesterday to try and get you near me
There's not much point in singing it if I'm up here
And you ain't over there
You know I spent time writing lines for you
It doesn't sound as good as you look that's true
But at least they rhyme that's quite hard to do
If you want a story that's tough on you
Did I write a love song that's new
If that's a waste of time perhaps you'd prefer
A science-fiction yarn on the commercial side
I know you're fond of stars shining bright and white like daisies
You can rest quite self-assured
Now as you feel the whole world turning
You're not just stoned out of your gourd
Please take my light year ticket with no return
Timewolf Airways
You could arrive there before you've been born
I just keeping on singing versions of this song
That I've always been singing
Heaven knows I've written a few
Just ran on and on and on and on
Now I feel the time has come
Lots for you to get your wallets right out on cue
Boring record moguls here's what you can do
Give me the cash, it's a smash, mercy dash
I'll go and live overseas
Doing what I please
Dreaming of a world where aspirations
Just won't matter much to me
I'll write my songs for no-one particularly
You won't hear them them
Mumbling and stumbling with consummate ease
Give him the cash, it's a smash, mercy dash
I've tried so hard just to please
Now I'll take my leave
I'm going for a song so I hope that you can hear me
I only wrote it yesterday to try and get you near me
I've had enough of singing it
So now I bring an end to this affair, this affair
(Lyrics by Pip Pyle)
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Cruising
04:36
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Today's the day I'll be high up in the sky
Got a ticket from the President, I'm such a lucky guy
Seeing Russia from the sky, oh me oh my
Strap me to my seat, then mentioned something 'bout a fuse?
Lots of places, lots of people I'm gonna see
And I'll bet they wave their hands as I go flying overhead so high
It's so nice when you are cruising
Hello friends, hello Russia
Got a little button here, don't know what it does
Bound to be something
Good enough for Leningrad
That's old St. Peters
Can't be bad
What a smashing time
Minsk and Omsk and Vladivostok
Sevastopol and good old Rostov
Won't it just be fine
Cruising the Eastern sky
Lots of folks and lots of country I'm gonna see
And I'll bet as I go cruising past
They'll wave fast and sweet at me
It's so nice when you are cruising
Hi there friends, hi there Moscow
Got a gift from Uncle Sam
Don't know what it is
No-one's allowed to travel with me
It's a secret
Cover up
I've got to see you
But to light your path
Tallin, Riga and Odessa
Krasnoyarsk I must confess
You fill me with desire
Cruising the Eastern sky
Lots of fun and lots of parties I'm gonna to see
And I'll bet in every town there'll be a welcome
Waiting just for me
It's so nice when you are cruising
Hello friends, hello comrades
Got a little present here
Don't know what it's for
They told me to share it around
Today's the day I'll be high up in the sky
Got a ticket from the President, I'm such a lucky guy
Gonna see the world on a cruise, oh me oh my
Thanks to Sgt. Bilko, Uncle Sam and all those nice men down there
Wondering why they're running quite so fast
Towards a concrete shelter, mmmm, nevermind
Think of balalaikas and that good old Mr. Gorbachev
(Lyrics by Hugh Hopper)
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Only The Brave
01:12
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Only the brave watch when Pye demonstrates the Mole
Mountains can fall when he inserts it in the hole
It goes so far, it goes so fast, where it ends up no-one knows
But Daevid down in Melbourne thinks he did see one of those
Down in the Bay old Dave is doing rather well
Wife and a nipper from a certain strange hotel
He's got a job right up his street, or say his "Avenue"
He's tinkling ivories all day long, he always wanted to
Then there's a Coughlan whose attempts to drink us dry
Having abandoned finally his bid to fly
He only made a pair of flaps before he crashed upon the beach
It's rumoured that his flippers failed to open at three feet
(Lyrics by Hugh Hopper)
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Plan It Earth
07:08
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Another year another lap around the sun for planet Earth
To keep this rock on spinning
Never ending just beginning
For future generations' children
Let's plan it Earth
Common sense and understanding
Should be found by everyone
We should be planting trees
And helping Third World nations from their knees
Little children free and well-fed
Let's plan it Earth
I sit at traffic lights and turn my engine off
Unleaded fuel
Recycling should be the rule
Help all those threatened endangered creatures to survive
Air land and sea should remain poison free
Long may green reign
If you plan to land feet first upright with your script complete
Remember too much alcohol
And self-indulgent mind-expanding
Practises just won't be useful
Let's plan it Earth
Plan it Earth
Plan it Earth
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Heather
05:14
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At the bottom of our garden blackbird broke in brush
Tuning up their winter flute in morning hush
In this brash and noisy age how sweet to hear again
Birdsong through the silver mist of morning winter rain
It's a magic in their song, they're singing Canterbury
In the Land of Grey and Pink where they all like to be
Little town with little streams where you can quietly stray
Through little churches where you feel that God can hear you praying
But so much for history
Time to make a new home by the sea
There's a lot of funny people dropping 'round by here
They've been eating all my food and drinking half my beer
All day long I try to keep it bright
But what with all these funny worries
I am sleepless, restless through the night
There's a lot of other countries that I'd like to see
From Japan to Spain or Holland, maybe Germany
Goodbye England, got to get away from gray skies
Time to travel southward like the wild songbirds before us
And we'll send our greetings home to you
From a paradise house warm and blue
H-E-A-T-H-E-R's my song for you
We'll take the little things we love and move to shores anew
You'll make pots and I'll sing songs
Up on that hill that overlooks the bay
With turquoise sea and clear blue skies
In happy days we'll spend our whole lives through
In a place of our own just me and you
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Keep On Caring
07:52
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All week struggle to earn those green vouchers
That pay for the beer and somewhere to sleep it all off
Safely away from the workaday wakeups
I lie in my warm woolly wintery what's it all about?
Trains of thought, images, fantasies passing
As night enters day lone stars they twinkle inkle think I'll
Stay in my dreams, out to lunch, memories merging
Yesterday's thinks thingybobs bobbling 'bout my brains
Brains I have seen, and the places I have been
Such a simple dream - simply dream
Keep on dreaming now
Have you ever stumbled through your dreams
Found there's someone listening - waiting for your call
Stopping you, falling falling - waking from your dreams?
Have you ever studied stars twinkling in the southern twilight?
Contemplating constellations makes you feel all right
Well it's good to know
If you take care for stars, stars take care for you
So let's take care for stars, therefore care
Keep on caring now
If I exist outside of me - will I meet me somewhere on my astral projection?
Somewhere up on the truth-tops, outside space and time
Should I biorhythmically pick out individual readings
Stick to palmistry, prophecy of destiny is such a mystery
Think I'll stick to tea
And remain amongst my dreams, 'cause that's where me meets me
Me meets me
Safely in my dreams
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Emily
05:50
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I know that singing makes you happy
So here's a song to help your day along
When you're bored of sucking thumbs
And chums who won't share their sweets
And other sticky treats
You can whistle up some fun
In the rain with your brolly and your boots on
Slush along 'til it's time for tea
And if you're calm I'll be home from work
And I'll be glad because today you were not sad
As you sang a happy tune
Did you miss me, I miss you
What was playschool like, did you ride your bike
And paint a picture, I like your pictures
It's a green splodge, it reminds me of a frog
Did it have a name, you got last Christmas time spent drawing
'Round your hands on paper
Draw a flower, a house, a tree, a car
Pretty soon when your brother's home from school
And you've all had tea
You can sit upon my knee and sing a song for me
I know that singing makes you happy
So here's a song, I wrote it just for you
And when it's time to go up the stairs to bed
Sleepyhead
Now the story has been read
Please dream a song for me
Emily
Emily
Emily
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8. |
Felafel Shuffle
06:26
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10. |
Five Go Wild
02:51
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Flowered at Bracknell
01:30
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12. |
It Didn't Matter Anyway
05:31
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It didn't matter anyway
We'll meet again some other day
'Til then goodbye, you'll be in my dreams
Goodbye, goodbye, bye for now
The time has come to leave you
Please don't feel alone
There'll be a way to reach you
And say goodbye, goodbye
Nevermind
It didn't matter anyway
We'll meet again some other day
'Til then keep well, you'll be in my dreams
Goodbye, goodbye, bye for now
(repeats)
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Richard Sinclair Martina Franca, Italy
The leading voice of the Canterbury Scene. Beginning with the Wilde Flowers, on to Caravan, Hatfield & the North, Camel and all his recent group efforts, Richard Sinclair's singing and bass playing have been a constant source of delight for lovers of Canterbury music. A deep, low voice, a talent for memorable melodies few can match, plus an imaginative and fluid technique on the bass and guitar. ... more
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