OH WHY DID YA LEAVE
© Trev Teasdel 1966 Cleobury Mortimer.
The stars shine bright above
People below talk about love
But me I’m sittin’ here
Every now and then a tear.
Chorus
Oh why did ya leave?
You were mine I do believe.
You were mine I do believe.
Oh why did ya leave?
You were mine I do believe.
No one can tell the way I fell for your arms
There was no way to repel your charms
You came to me when I needed a lift
Now you have flown with the winds so swift.
The night’s so dark, it hides the mark you made.
You shone so bright in the night then began to fade.
The room’s so bare, there’s no one there
The room’s so bare, there’s no one there
I cry out all in vain.
The floor it creaks, my mind it seeks
A rest from all this pain............
A version by Mira and the Magnetic Ghosts 2025
I was 15 when I wrote this song, away at a Coventry Boarding School out at Cleobury Mortimer in Shropshire. It was visiting day - our parents came over and we drove around the country side - had Sunday dinner in a village pub. At 5pm - they had to leave - the tears fell - homesick blues. I wrote the lyric then to distract myself from missing the home comforts and my parents and sister. I knew enough to make it more universal so it became a lost love song. Marianne Faithful's As Tears Go By had been playing on the car radio along with early Dylan and the first version was in that style with finger-picked guitar. In 2025 I produced this new version using digital technology.
Below is a rough cassette try out while setting the lyric to music, rough and unfinished but it gives the idea of the song.
The same version but on Reverbnation
I was 15 when I wrote this song, away at a Coventry Boarding School out at Cleobury Mortimer in Shropshire. It was visiting day - our parents came over and we drove around the country side - had Sunday dinner in a village pub. At 5pm - they had to leave - the tears fell - homesick blues. I wrote the lyric then to distract myself from missing the home comforts and my parents and sister. I knew enough to make it more universal so it became a lost love song. Marianne Faithful's As Tears Go By had been playing on the car radio along with early Dylan and the first version was in that style with finger-picked guitar. In 2025 I produced this new version using digital technology.
Below is a rough cassette try out while setting the lyric to music, rough and unfinished but it gives the idea of the song.
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