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People and Places

from People and Places by Chris Simmance

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People and Places


I set off in the morning sun
In May with the sense of summer to come
And now as I smell the autumn air
The people will ask – did I get anywhere?
No great feats worthy of mention
Several hours in police detention
I can’t remember all the songs I’ve sung
I can remember that it was fun

I love new places and people I meet
I love to sing for you on the street
To give what I’ve got and take what I need
In the winter’s cold and the summer’s heat

Someone asked what message I’d got
They were right to ask, it was quite a shock
To think that they thought I was just having fun
A student on holiday, a man on the run
They asked again - and what of my wife
And how could she share such a vagabond life
And what of insurance and illness and health?
They even asked what I’d put on the shelf

I really love to be outside
With the whole wide world before my eyes
I’m not such a friend of the wind and the rain
But you can’t have the peace without the storm
When birds are singing in the trees
The breeze is playing with the leaves
You don’t have to own it or say it is yours
The main thing is you’re out of doors

For every king and every lord
There’s a jester in the court

Someone said – you should be a star
And they wondered why I hadn’t got that far
The funny thing is, if you hear it enough
You begin to believe in this flattering stuff
I‘m not a musician, not really a poet
If you read these lines you will surely know it
I give what I’ve got, take what I can
And happy to be a vagabond man

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from People and Places, released January 1, 2003

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Julia & Chris Simmance Aix En Provence, France

Dear Music-Friends,
We are happy to tell you, that we are out there again, on the streets of South of France !
Hopefully rather sooner than later we will also add some new recordings on our site here.
Greetings and till then,
Julia and Chris ... more

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