Fond Farewell (Mind How You Go)

© jiva 2007

A tune we had written in 2005 kept coming back to haunt us. We wrote various sets of lyrics covering different interpretations of the original core theme for the song. Two years later we settled on the text set out below... but then decided the tune wasn't right for it, and so abandoned the idea.

A few days later some idle guitar twiddling between songs in rehearsal produced a chord sequence which suggested 'parting' words - and we married those chords to the abandoned lyrics!

It's a song of parting - a few regrets, a lot of thanks and many memories of time spent together.

No MP3 extract yet!

Jimmy and Val

A fond farewell and “Mind how you go”
So many things to say
It seems but a moment since we said “Hello”
Soon we’ll be on our way

Thanks for the memory, and for the smile
Treasure the time that we shared
Some way down the road we’ll meet again
Who knows when who knows where
Some way down the road we’ll meet again
Who knows when who knows where

Remember the times we laughed till we cried
Remember the stories we’d tell
Remember the songs, remember the wine
I remember it only too well

Thanks for the memory, and for the smile
Treasure the time that we shared
Some way down the road we’ll meet again
Who knows when who knows where
Some way down the road we’ll meet again
Who knows when who knows where

A fond farewell and “Mind how you go”
Too many things to say
It seems but a moment since we said “Hello”
[and] Soon we’ll be on our way

Thanks for the memory, and for the smile
Treasure the time that we shared
Some way down the road we’ll meet again
Who knows when who knows where
Some way down the road we’ll meet again
Who knows when who knows where

Thanks for the memory, and for the smile
Treasure the time that we shared
Some way down the road we’ll meet again
Who knows when who knows where

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