When I was thinking of what pieces I would play regarding my ‘personal nostalgic’ list – this one is an odd one. It is included because not long after I started playing a musical instrument, I remember watching Judy Collins singing this song on top of the pops in the mid 70s when I was still a school kid. Although I did not really understand its melodic or harmonic structure at that point – there is something compelling about how the home chord pivots in the A section, before being ‘slightly lost’ in the B section, prior to ‘coming home’ again in the final A section. These resolutions I would argue are something that even people who don’t play an instrument feel – we can sense the feeling of ‘tension and release’. The song also reminds me of my time living in my childhood home in the north east – this is what songs can do!

Anyway – here is a demo version of how my solo arrangement is shaping up at the moment – I just need to figure out an improvisation section somewhere in there.