TRAVELLERS' TALES
Collected lyrics 1976 - 2002
(c) Robin Hill
Updated August 2004 (revamped September 2008)
At some stage every young man harbours dreams of being a rock/pop/folk star. And at some much later stage, an older man learns to finally bid those dreams goodbye. So it was with me. Of course, sex was the first to go, then drugs (only kidding, officer). But eventually, after 300 odd songs - some quite good(suprisingly), some indifferent, some frankly awful - I finally decided to hang up my guitar in favour of a mortgage, a steady job, and a comfortable if hardly extravagant middle age.....
Of course, my music wasn't entirely without its fans, and one or two of them (oh alright then, both of them) have suggested that I should post the songs on a web site, for posterity. Well, I can't post the music - at least not at present - but here's a small selection of the lyrics, for anyone who's interested.
The lyrics were written over a long period, and don't appear here in any chronological order. I'll have to leave it to the reader to separate out the teenage angst, from the swaggering know it all of the twenty or thirty something, from the sad mid life concession that actually I know very little at all .....
More lyrics will follow later, if interest dictates.
Please note that all the stuff on this web site is copyrighted. You should not copy or otherwise adapt any of the lyrics, whether for money or otherwise, without prior written permission. I may have given up any dreams of making a fortune from my songs, but I'd be pretty miffed if someone else tried to do it!
On the other hand, I'd never shun publicity for the songs, and would be amenable to most written requests to reproduce the contents of the site, in exchange for due credit and a guarantee that copyright would be safeguarded. My e-mail address appears below. At a later stage I may even be able to provide sheet music to genuinely interested parties. (Most of the songs would suit a 3-4-5 piece band comprising of acoustic and/or electric guitars, bass guitar, and keyboards. Many later songs also featured parts for saxophone.)
This site is dedicated to those who have encouraged me over the years. It's all their fault.
THE LYRICS
All songs were written sometime between c1976 and the present day. Some earlier lyrics started life as poems, when I used to write those, too. Many of these have been published previously (as have a large number of later song lyrics, cunningly disguised as poems!). The dates shown below are the dates the collections were added to the site, not the dates on which the stuff was written or first published.
The lyrics have been divided into loosely themed collections, as follows (more collections will be added later):
E-mail: robin-panamahat@blueyonder.co.uk
NB Like many people, I'm loathe to open e-mails I don't recognise. When e-mailing, please use relevant words e.g. 'Songs' or 'Lyrics' in the subject line - otherwise the e-mail may get discarded, unopened.
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