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Meigan Fayre - video soundtrack 2018
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Audio taken from a video recording made on an iPhone 6 in 2018
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Hi folks. I have added a lot of videos recently. Please take a look!
Hi folks, This site acts as a personal archive of my work. So you'll find my best recordings here as well as some pretty crappy ones. The earliest recordings here were made on simple cassette decks, others were made on mobile phones, some are live recordings made at various gigs over the years, a handful were made in small recording studios, but most of the more recent ones were made at home on a Zoom portable studio, which itself is now rather ancient! If you like a song and want to download it, 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 music is available for free - enjoy :) cheers, Charles
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #95
Peak in subgenre #25
Author
Charles Tyler
Rights
Charles Tyler
Uploaded
February 15, 2019
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.5 MB • 128 kbps • 4:52
Story behind the song
I wrote this song after attending one of the legendary Meigan Fayres in the Preselli mountains in Wales. The year was 1975. This song is my celebration of the festival. I travelled to the festival site on an old coach converted to a classic hippie bus with my friends in a band called Solar Ben. The Solar Ben band comprised Michael Wilding, who played sax, Robin Lawrence on drums, Barry Coleman on lead guitar, Betine the vocalist and Steve the bass player. The Fayres were classic hippie music festivals in the fields. Tents and tipis, long hair and colourful clothes. The sweet smell of smoke in the air. The Meigan Fayres were particularly nice - in a lovely setting - small scale and intimate - unlike some of the huge events held elsewhere around the same time. The Meigan festival site was where some of the stones were quarried to build Stonehenge. I got to perform a couple of numbers on stage there: 'Guruvy Guru' and 'White Farmhouse'.
Lyrics
When the full moon rises in the Preselli mountains And the sacred stones glow in the West When the tent pole breaks And the Druid wakes And the valley shakes with the harvest I'll see you there at the Meigan Fayre I'll see you there at the Meigan Fayre! Come with your lovers and with your sisters and your brothers And come with the lessons learned since we last met Sing me a new song! Rise with a new dawn! Fling off your future fear and your past regret! I'll see you there at the Meigan Fayre! I'll see you there at the Meigan Fayre! Are you still a believer in the power of a flower? Do you teach your children that love is all you need? Are your eyes still open? And is your campfire smoking? And do you still bless the sowing of the seed? I'll see you there at the Meigan Fayre! I'll see you there at the Meigan Fayre! I'll see you there at the Meigan Fayre! I'll see you there at the Meigan Fayre!
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