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Charles Cornelius Tyler
Hi folks,
Greetings from beautiful Sydney!
This site acts as an archive of my work.
If you like a song and want to download it, just click on 'Full song info' for that song and you will see the download link. You can also read the lyrics and any background information on the songs that I may have added.
All my songs are currently available as free downloads - enjoy :)
cheers,
Charles
Greetings from beautiful Sydney!
This site acts as an archive of my work.
If you like a song and want to download it, just click on 'Full song info' for that song and you will see the download link. You can also read the lyrics and any background information on the songs that I may have added.
All my songs are currently available as free downloads - enjoy :)
cheers,
Charles
Music
If we last a thousand years there's no time to live but now...
A SoundClick Top 50 song
Just having fun...
A song about riding across Afghanistan by motorbike at night.
A SoundClick Top 50 song
An autobiographical traveller's song about an overland journey from London to Kathmandu and back in 1969.
A SoundClick Top 50 song
A song about time, life, love, and what it is that we are...
A SoundClick Top 100 song
A grey heron skims across Clear Lake in California..... pure magic
A SoundClick Top 50 song
Early in the morning the birds fly around my windowsill...
A SoundClick Top 50 song
A song based on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
A SoundClick Top 50 song
Fair is fair - you're something rare. A new recording of an old favourite.
I've got a hole in my pocket where the money runs out!
A SoundClick Top 50 song
I just can't recall one thing I did or said. Did I start a fight? Is someone dead?
A SoundClick Top 50 song
I'm gonna ride up on the mountain - and look up at the sky - and listen to the silence - and kiss our love goodbye
A SoundClick Top 50 song
A peaceful song written on a hillside in Wales.
A SoundClick Top 50 song
Don't say you love me again if you can't tell me when!!
Nobody tells me - nobody knows - where the wind comes from or where the wind blows - why the seasons change or the river flows - nobody tells me, cause nobody knows!
A SoundClick Top 50 song
Rolling a joint on the table - underneath the lamp - my hands are damp...
Will you be with me when the winter comes? Will you stay by my side? And will you light the fire when the rain is falling?
A SoundClick Top 100 song
Sometimes when I'm alone - like so many times before - I take off all my clothes and I roll on the floor
If love could never turn from gold to blue..
A SoundClick Top 50 song
Love has got the better of me - I need a little time - just a little time
A classic ballad - around 700 years old - about the sailor Sir Patrick Spens who was obliged by the King of Scotland to sail to Norway in mid-winter.... tragedy ensues
A tongue in cheek country comedy song.... this version has live laughter - plus spluttering and coughing and drinking :)
A SoundClick Top 100 song
A song about friendship and busking on the French riviera
Hello folks! God here!
A SoundClick Top 50 song
Dedicated to the memory of Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)
A satire on Zionism
A SoundClick Top 50 song
A satire on evangelical Christians
A SoundClick Top 50 song
A satire on suicide bombers
A SoundClick Top 50 song
On December 26 2004 - a terrible tsunami struck Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and other places... meanwhile Iraq was descending into chaos...
Those who knew Andrew know how very special a person he was...
In your heart truth is found...
A SoundClick Top 50 song
Do you believe in me like I believe in you? Don't you think that's maybe what we came here to do?
Debora - Debora - you know I'm not a ladies man..
A SoundClick Top 10 song
We are the Mighty Zionists!
I fell in love with the colours of your skin - and how your eyes melted me and your smile jolted my heart...
A satire on personal advertisements
A SoundClick Top 100 song
Never the same twice - walk on water - walk on ice
A SoundClick Top 50 song
A song to Mendocino's beautiful Big River
A simple question...
It's a certain curve - it's a certain swerve - it's the search for the perfect body - it's the perfect shape that can turn you ape - it's the search for the perfect body
A SoundClick Top 100 song
Didn't I need a friend - I was at a loose end then you came in - and that's the saddest thing...
A song about friendship crossing time and distance..
I know how it feels to be messed up inside - to be losing your sleep on love when it won't go right - to be some kind of Don Quixote - some romantic knight - oh I've been crazy..
I've tried to work it out but I don't know how. I think it's better to run than go on and go on living with you..
If you feel you're stranded by the tide - little lover I'll be on your side...
A satire on the country music scene
About the pain of ending a relationship...
A great head-bashing anarchic punk track by Chris Diurni in which Bonnie and I scream our lungs out...
Got a rocket in the socket and a teaser in the squeezer.. full tilt rock and roll about a magical motorbike... Ride It!
Dirty - sweaty - greasy - violent :)
Every room's an island here - and everyone's insane..
Is she marrying an alien?
Is she really?
Is he gonna be American?
Is he really
ma-ma-ma-Mexican?
I could see you and me sharing a world of crazy magic - but you just didn't want to know...
Hey you there over that Berlin wall - these bad habits are gonna kill us all! A song from when the Wall still divided East from West..
A vision of insects inheriting the earth after a nuclear war ends the reign of mankind...
A song written when the US was waging a covert war against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua in the 1980s.
Could it be the things we do that make you so uptight?
A satire on fake Hindu gurus
A SoundClick Top 100 song
A song about a hippie festival in Wales..
An environmentalist in despair discovers meditation and regains his optimism
A song attributed to Jimmy Cox - apparently written in the 1920s and since recorded by just about everybody :) This is my version...
A love triangle involving two guys and a girl...
An English cad chases a rich American girl for her money... but she's already married..
A song about marijuana-smoking
A song about living in a farmhouse in Wales
A satire on new-age religious charlatans
A song about memory, friends, time and distance, and magic moments in Calistoga, Napa Valley, California
A song about the sadness of the world
An invitation from California to an unhappy friend in England.
A SoundClick Top 100 song
A song of frustrated love.
A song about a one-night stand
An early morning vision of Clear Lake, California.
A song about rediscovering love for an ex-lover
A jazzy sort of blues song - a humorous examination of the blank state that despair can put you into..
For the love of youth and beauty people will put up with almost anything :)
Just poking fun at all those fake cowboys :)
A song written and recorded in 1984 to celebrate George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984".
A vision of a sterile life in the future in a domed city where the weather is strictly controlled..
A song written when Russia and the USA were still threatening to annihilate each other with nuclear weapons. A rare example of my piano playing :)
Day after day I pray in my heart for love to find me
About the sadness of the world...
Sympathy - it's just a waste of breath...
Time - taking control of me - rocking and rolling me all over eternity - Space - staring right in my face - laughing at the human race and making me feel so small - Set me free! Oh set me free!
A triangle ...
Love can be a peach and love can be a pain - you think you're doing fine and then you fall again....
A travellers song ...
I'm happy as mushroom pie - oh I wonder why?!
A song about a peaceful farmhouse in Wales ...
Why are we here? Why is there a universe? Why is anything happening at all? Does there have to be a reason?!
A song about rolling a joint... amongst other things
Don't talk about Yoga and Zen to me - let's just make love!
Do you want happiness? Do you want endless bliss? Didn't you know you can get it from me !!?
About a chance meeting in Paris....
You say that I'm so stupid to be feeling sad....
A song about the Meigan Fayre festival in Wales
I've seen the changing of the presidents while prisons close on innocents...
One soul and two bodies to share the night...
A song inspired by the teachings of Ramana Maharshi
A song about a remote farmhouse in Wales
A song about sitting on Kuta beach and playing my guitar as the sun sets and the magic mushrooms kick in....
Photos
At Humayun's tomb in New Delhi
Poster
The first Da-Da poster
Me and Chris in Na-Da - Da-Da's last incarnation
Da-Da in San Francisco
Charles-Chris-Bonnie-John-Tony
Da-Da
Da-Da photoshoot
Da-Da at the Acres 1982
Chris Diurni
Tony Vito and John Bush
Bonnie Kirkpatrick
Me with Tony
Me and John
Harlequin Da-Da
Ma-Ma at Toad Hall 1982
Punk Da-Da
Bonnie
Tony Vito
John Bush and Chris Diurni
John
Da-Da - me and Bonnie
At the Caspar Inn 1982
Richard Fienbop and Charles Tyler
Charles Laura-Jean and Chris - in C Sharps
Singing in the C sharps
Poster for C Sharps and others
Advert
Mendocino 1981
Single cover - 1972
Charles Tyler - Malaysia 1972
At Sussex University 1978
In the Blue Mountains 2005
Cas Concos - Mallorca - 1975
Sept 2007 playing at home
Playing my piano May 2007