The Ballad of Eel Pie Island (lyrics)

http://www.eelpie.org/jon_janoff_the_ballad_of_eel_pie_island_(jon_janoff_chris_faiers).mp3

The Ballad of Eel Pie Island music by Jon Janoff  -  lyrics by Chris Faiers performed and recorded by Jon Janoff (2004) In a time long ago seems just like yesterday we were travelling in space and got lost on the way Chorus: Down on the Island, Eel Pie Island down on the island, it's nothing but a figment of your mind we were hippies and runaways gurus and thieves poets and songwriters all smokers of leaves Once a playground of power famous stopover of kings where Dickens wrote Bleak House and Pickwick Papers The Stones and The Faces did sing Chorus: There will always be an island it has always been here if you are so young and lonely young and lonely and down hearted and lost Chorus: Go find your own island go down and find yourself some new friends let the spirit flow upwards in your head down where the great river bends Chorus: ends with: do not ever let it slip your mind Chorus refrain: - Chris Faiers (written 2004, transcribed 2023)

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the afternoon Peter Green came to play at the Eel Pie Island commune?

Fellow Eel Pie Island communard Weed and I are still in touch over half a century after our youthful days living in the derelict Eel Pie Island Hotel commune. Here's a pic which he just discovered from another era! 

 

 

 

 https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/why-peter-green-quit-fleetwood-mac/