Sandy Grey - John Martyn

Oh Sandy Grey, are you going away?

Leave me a message before parting

Time has changed you and the things that pain you

Are the things you think of as you’re starting

Oh Sandy Grey, it’s only this I’ll pray:

That you might stay here one more day in laughter

Won’t you hang around and hold me, repeat all the lies you told me?

— Do your rambling after

Oh Sandy Grey, whatever made you want to stay?

And now what makes you want to be a-leaving?

Is it the same thing they found when they laid your father down

Or are your reasons even worth retrieving?

Oh Sandy Grey, don’t leave me just today

Don’t think on the road you’ll be a-going

Think of all the time and the days we’ve had to mind

Of the future, there’s no way of knowing

Oh Sandy Grey, I thought I heard you say

That you ain’t heard one word that I’ve been speaking

There’s no use in trying you escaping from my mind

And I’ll never see the world you’re seeking

Oh Sandy Grey, are you going away?

Leave me a message before parting

Time has changed you and the things that pain you

Are the things you think of as you’re starting