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Don't Let Go
03:21
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Josi Girl
04:04
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Pulling up young roots and setting down again
It is never easy but sometimes you need to start again.
Coming from the rain and traveling to the sun
Discovering your music in a record shop in town
Like a migrating bird, always finds it's home
if something in your heart is missing then you will return
A message in your heart screams something isn't right
living for your music but needing something more
You can take the Girl from england,
but you can't take the england from the girl.
She can travel round the world in circle she will always stay a Josi girl
Returning to the start where you once began
Starting a new life in this tiny green England
Hoping for the light but discovering the truth
The more you learn less you think you've understood
Hustle, bustle, rush of seedy london town
looking up to the grey sky can sometimes pull you down
Josi girl has landed and 'just now' she is home
laying down new roots and finding she is not alone
You can take the Girl from england,
but you can't take the england from the girl.
She can travel round the world in circle she will always stay a Josi girl
Ahh Shame
Ahh Shame
Ahh Shame
Ahh Shame
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Smyleen
04:03
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Theres this girl I’ve seen around, Belfast born and bred, she was bound
to follow in her fathers steps, pick up a pencil and off she went creating art and making friends.
Her happy memories of the past, at the back of nanny’s door slinging darts, all is well till brothers turn, claims accident as her leg burns. At least the pain would wear off fast .
Comic books and new tattoos making friends you’ll never lose
All of these things and some more Smyleen, Smyleen smile some more
Theres this girl I’ve seen around, always at the front and singing loud, an inminion right from the start, a love of music deep in her heart.
She rests her arm knees on the bar.
Comic books and new tattoos making friends you’ll never lose
All of these things and some more Smyleen, Smyleen smile some more
She cries out mac rí because she misses her family, so proud of Irish roots
She cries out mac rí when resting so quietly in Danny’s loving arms
She cries out mac rí honouring nanny’s life and watching for the stars
Muddling words right from the start, driving round in Hadleigh Car
All of these things and some more Smyleen will you smile some more
Comic books and new tattoos making friends you’ll never lose
All of these things and some more Smyleen, Smyleen smile some more
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Brownsoulsister
03:00
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Brownsoulsister
She’s my Brownsoulsister yet we do not share a name
I said she’s my Brownsoulsister and music to blame
When I was down she’d always come around
and pick up my frown and turn it upside down
Yeah when I’m feeling down I always can rely on my Brownsoulsister
and I’m always glad you came
She’s my Brownsoulsister and Sukhy is her name
Shes a friend you can rely on and I know you feel the same
When I’m alone I need to hear your tone I just pick up the phone
and find out if you are home
yeah when I’m feeling down I always can rely on my Brownsoulsister
Well this poor, poor boy
Sad only child
Never had a brother or a sister
Until the day
he was swept under the wings of the gentle Bahia sisters
She’s my Brownsoulsister
A yellow string and a promise made
You will always be my sister
I’ll protect you if you call my name
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Wishful Thinking
02:24
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6. |
Here Is Your Song
03:30
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Here is your song
Oh Greg, you’ve waited so long
Here now is your song
This time it wont take me so long
So let’s look back at the times that have gone
What’s happened since when
My pledge campaign began
And you now completed your own.
Your ‘Streets Of Rage’ smashed 600% and Centiment are still going strong
Bm C D
When I turn my head back to see
Your helping hands are there supporting me
Oh you pledged and you have my thanks now
It wont take so long
Here is your song
Oh Greg, you’ve waited so long
Please accept this song
I’m late but I hope worth the wait
But before this song is done
I'll confess your pledge was biggest and best
when you asked me for several t-shirts
3 Bjork covers which are nearly all done
and of course the matter of this song
Oh I know that I left you waiting just sat there holding on
and i'm sorry if that was frustrating but wait
Here now is your song
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Sunaina [Beautiful Eyes]
03:11
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Beautiful Eyes
Said Ill meet you at Bermondsey Street
Lobster and chips at Village east
Hold my hand and lets walk through
the memories of a perfect life with you
Sunaina sunaina, I would never change ya
Sunaina - beautiful eyes
Seychelles honeymoon was a beautiful dream
My perfect princess in the clear blue sea
New York as Obama answered the call
You partied with Will at the I am Legend ball
Under Parisian Skies
I see the world reflected
I stare and start to fall
I'm endlessley and hopelessly
yours
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Days In The Sun
03:42
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Days In The Sun
Another night another glass
The usual suspects turn and share a laugh
Its that drunken epiphany before we all pass out.
It's the kind of time that makes you believe
You have the answers securely up your sleeve
Just before they fade
As i learn and grow and find out more the universe unfolds and there more to know
A chance a gift, how lucky I am
To peel back the layers and peer within
The fleshy machine in which we begin
And slowly end our days
Days In the sun
A dying star where it all begun
At night we come undone
Drunk with the knowledge of the stars above
Shrouded by a blanket of stars
apart yet still a part of it all
as I close my eyes and I sink within
the soup of atoms from which I began
I'm reabsorbed for life to begin again
and again
Sometimes we all forget
This machine in which we lie
is not so much a host
But a manifestation of our lives
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The Love Of A Lifetime
04:07
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Uncle Dave and Grandpa joined the army
When they returned Dave planned for wedding bells to ring.
Grandpa was the best man at the wedding
and it wasn’t long till the parties in full swing.
He saw a beautiful girl, the bridesmaid at the wedding
and he watched her spin around and around
But as the clock struck twelve and the carriages were leaving
He thought that was the last time he'd see that beautiful girl
3 score years
The love of a lifetime
If finding loves is hard
Then keeping it is harder
Learning to light the spark
and keep it burning bright forever
by taking on those vows
we promised to love forever
It wasn’t long till he met that girl from the wedding
She was now a nurse at St James in Leeds
They started Courting in the peak district of England
And pretty soon they held a wedding of their own
The patter of tiny feet was heard first time with Janet
After she arrived they moved far across the seas
Phillipa was born in and raised in Ghana
But they soon came home and the rest is history
So here we are together at the party
Its hard to believe that 60years has past
Shining bright like diamonds sparkling forever
Just like a diamonds this love will last
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10. |
Peace
02:41
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Instrumental track
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Hadleigh Ford London, UK
I write songs, play guitar and sing.
Sometimes I play the fool.
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