OH WHY DID YA LEAVE
© Trev Teasdel 1966 / 69 Cleobury Mortimer / Coventry.
The stars shine bright above
People below talk about love
But me I’m sittin’ here
Every now and then a tear.
Chorus
Oh why did ya leave?
You were mine I do believe.
You were mine I do believe.
Oh why did ya leave?
You were mine I do believe.
No one can tell the way I fell for your arms
There was no way to repel your charms
You came to me when I needed a lift
Now you have flown with the winds so swift.
The night’s so dark, it hides the mark you made.
You shone so bright in the night then began to fade.
The room’s so bare, there’s no one there
The room’s so bare, there’s no one there
I cry out all in vain.
The floor it creaks, my mind it seeks
A rest from all this pain.
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One of the first songs I wrote back in 1966,while still at the City of Coventry boarding school in Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire. I only wrote one a month on average from when I was 15 until 1968 when I became more serious and prolific. It was visiting day and the parents had just left and the tears came down. That was what it was originally about but i transformed into a love song in 1968. The feel of it was hearing early Dylan playing on the pirate radio stations- Radio Caroline in particular.
This is a rough cassette try out while setting the lyric to music, rough and unfinished but it gives the idea of the song.