This is a song I wrote in 1979, I was shocked when I realised how old it is, it's called Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, because it started as a letter to an ex-girlfriend [a bit of a bunny boiler] who wouldn't let go, read on...

LET SLEEPING DOGS LIEPhill Williams

If you'd prefer to play it in C, the chords are ;
VERSE C-Dm-F-G|| C-Em-F-Dm||Am7-C augmented]-Dm-F...|| F-Dm- F- C
                                                         
chorus  Eb- F- C...[Bb]|| Eb-Gm-F-C-Eb-G.

Hi,
I started to read what you sent me pertaining to Passing Moments, I thought what you had written was lovely, but I had to shut down my computer in a hurry, and when I came back on line I'd lost your note, sorry about that I think you were asking about the subject matter...well,

When I was 13 or so, I was smitten by a young lady in my class at school, she was very pretty and had all the boys chasing her. For some reason she agreed to go out with me, and we dated for a week or two before she dumped me...sobs

Any road up, the song refers to a date we had which we spent in a local park, I remember gazing at a clear winters night sky, and at first I was going to write about a moon lit night, but that's been done to death! So the stars and constellations it was. I was looking at what I've always called the sospan [Welsh for saucepan], which I've learned is actually Leo, my star sign [mmm] It's funny how you can be alone with other people, and I really felt alone that night...she dumped me next day!

About 5 years later, I was working with the guy who had married the girl, and he was talking of leaving her for a newer model, I've been with the same lovely lady for nearly 30 years, [she'll be sorry when I'm a man] so she lost out, both ways don't you think, and last funny coincidence, she had the same name as my wife.
I guess what I'm trying to say is; we must all try and cry at least once before we find the one that is meant for us, my wife and I have always agreed that we are soul-mates, and we have been together, not just in this life but all the lives we've had before, and all the ones to come, and I suppose the meaning of it all is that you get born then search until you find your soul mate, because that way you don't just spend your lives together, but eternity...isn't that what they say in the songs?

there endeth the first lesson, if you read all of this then I apologize for boring you.

love Phill

This is probably the finished version, I've added a couple of extra chord changes and another verse and middle eight...it's all about unrequited love at age 13! how sad is that? I must be dumb, cos I cant work out how to get my song from file to here

Passing MomentsPhill Williams

Could someone put music to this bit of a poem that I've written?

PASSING MOMENTS

Passing moments soon be gone
Though memory will linger on
Count the kisses, cherish the hugs
Does memory last longer than love?
Ever needing, ever growing
Ever feeding on my love.

Twilight romance in winter crisp
Bodies warming, lips to lips
In the playground constellations above
Counting stars, with one sided love
she is ever taking, stealing youth
Stole my heart, she broke it too
Live without her, seems I can...
She'll be sorry, when I'm a man.

this is a song I wrote that makes me feel melancholy every time I play it or just read it...

How the world has changed, you've never let it change you
what you used to be, has fed you and sustained you
now what lies ahead, you don't want to contemplate
the things she might have said; "just leave it all to fate"

Sitting in the park, watch the world pass by you
you used to sit with her, taking in this great view
willow and oak, swans in the water
your son and his wife, with his son and daughter

you've seen these self same kids, grow up and remind you
time keeps marching on, some day it will consume you
then you'll be with her again, happy together
the angels called for her, and so she had to leave you

Now you sit in the park, remembering the laughter
cream tea and cakes, on the day that you asked her
soon you were wed, on a Sunday in August
no party no dance, no money to squander

Sitting in the park, watch the world pass by you
now you sit alone, taking in this great view
you used to sit with her, taking in this great view....

words and music by Phill Williams

hope you like it comments welcome