This is an unusual song in its style and one of the few songs that I wrote with Paul A Moore back in my 404 band days. We had just got our record deal with BMG Records in New York and our publishing deal with EMI. At that point of time everything looked so good. Paul was messing around on the Ovation guitar, that I still own, you can see it in the picture along side my dad’s old guitar and the Fishman Loudbox Artist amp. The melancholy feel to the chords, felt a bit Sicillian or Russian and so beautiful. I started to sing along with it, the song’s melody and words just came so easy. I have never really thought about the song since as it doesn’t fit with anything else that I have done so much so, that I burst out laughing when my wife commented about the song asking who the opera singer was. I think that it really fits well with the video that was taken as my wife and I cycled through the olive groves of San Cassiano, in Pugla. I think that I should do more with this song,

Verse 1
We’re far from home, far we’ve travelled and still far to go.
We still have stayed together while this world has changed.

Chorus
All though the years,
good and bad years.
Still we survived.
Still side by side.

Verse 2
Times we’ve been poor, hard times came and we endured.
We’ve had to wait but our dreams have not been betrayed.

Chorus
All though the years,
good and bad years.
Still we survived.
Still side by side.

(c) Words John Hunter, Music John Hunter & Paul A. Moore
(p) Sentric Music Publishing

RECORDING NOTES

The recording features the Ovation Celebrity electric acoustic guitar with me on vocals