Named by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of 2003's Top 20 Guitarists of all-time and the recent recipient of both an Ivor Novello Award for Songwriting and the 2006 BBC Lifetime Achievement Award, the iconic British folk rock legend is one of the world's most critically acclaimed and prolific songwriters. His work is admired and recorded by such artists as Bonnie Raitt, David Byrne and Elvis Costello. From his teenage years as a founding member of the 1960's pioneering group Fairport Convention to duo work with his then-wife
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
D Sometimes I long for the solitary life G Parents long gone, no kids, no wife AGD Sister somewhere in Australia never did keep in touch Sex no more than a how-do-ye-do G With a copy of Tit-Bits in the loo AGD Socially a bit of a failure, nice not to have to try too much
Chorus: DGD A solitary life, a life of small horizons EmCGD Dull as the pewter sky over North West Eleven
A serious hobby in the garden shed Model trains, or soldiers in lead Join the suburban boffins of Britain, experts on trivial things And holidays in the Yorkshire Dales Or cycling tours of the North of Wales Unenvious of those flea-bitten on continental flings
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Excitement comes by subtle means The satisfaction of routines Small revenges at the office, smug little victories You work on your pallor, complexion like paste Like the grey defeat on an inmates face A life spent adding losses and profits, resigning by degrees
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And come to the end, sad and alone A steady reliable tumour you’ve grown From selfish years, while all your peers have stressfully jogged to health In life you always were quite numb And foggier now, you soon succumb In drab St. Barts on the new by-pass, death overcomes by stealth