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All Those Songs About Sunny California

from Autobisongraphy by Dave Atkinson

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1983. From the album Leavings 2016. Recorded at Orchard Studios, Nantwich.

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'Eight miles high above the hills a spaceship is flying,
On another flight tonight you cross the starry dome;
No flowers for San francisco, no tears for California,
You would have stayed on with us but your heart cried out for home.'

'I can really see you now, on a welfare programme,
To help you to adjust perhaps a course of therapy;
Making bucks performing on the Embarcadero
And California Dreaming would have been reality.'

'But all those songs about sunny California
Could not persuade you to change your mind and stay;
Far across the ocean in rainy, rainy England
The old man sleeps, his dreams to keep, until the break of day.'

Looking back now passing years and wide skies divide us,
Chances and changes wear an air of certainty;
From a far-off fireside through a window dark and dreamy
California was just an Eden, a paradise to see.

And all those songs about sunny California
Could not persuade me to change my mind and stay;
Far across the ocean in rainy, rainy England
The old man sleeps, his dreams to keep, until the break of day.

©Dave Atkinson 1983

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from Autobisongraphy, released November 19, 2021
Katie Atkinson, vocals. Produced by John Newbould.

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Dave Atkinson Chester, UK

I have been writing songs since 1967 when I was 17 and since I have accumulated over 440. Early influences were Dylan, Cohen, Jackson Browne Joni Mitchell, Kristofferson. Though never 'successful' in any conventional sense, my songs and guitar have led many sing-rounds and a couple of 1970's albums sell for £100s as 'rare vinyl'. Above all, it has been a happy adventure. www.atkinsongs.co.uk ... more

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