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tom paxton lyrics and chords::He sang it all around denmark, and i got invited over because of that.
Thomas, one of the virgin islands in the caribbean.
My time in st.
Thomas was to be a recuperation period, a time when i could forget all the problems of the recent past and concentrate on getting fit again for performing.
I began to realise what was important and what could be discarded.
Establishing the criteria is the difficult part, and this is often influenced by extreme experiences.
I began to realise the value of friends and how i wished some of them could be with me to share the island.
It was in this mood that the song began to develop.
My exwife kathy, more in this than any other song i have written was a great help offering rhymes and ideas as i tried to form the song.
Of all the songs i have written, this has been the most recorded by other performers, of quite diverse styles.
My favourite version is by alex campbell, who had a minor hit with it in denmark.
I had taught him the song backstage at the norwich folk festival, around 1978 and he had taken it and made it his own.
He knew how to sing the song because he had lived it, and as far as i know it was the last song he ever sang in public.