I Will Love You All My Life lyrics and guitar chords

Charlie Landsborough and recorded by Foster And Allen [ songs ] and Rose Marie. The video is of Charlie,,,,,Mighty singer. The second version of the chords is the one that Charlie uses. Recently recorded by Irish country singer Nathan Carter.

[G]Your forever telling me I'm[C] weak 
When I'm critized I never[G] speak
I prefer to turn the other[D7] cheek 
But I will love you all my[G] life
I[G] can never do things right by[C] you 
I'm the kind of man who muddles[G] thruough 
You can find mistakes in all I[D7] do 
But I will love you all my[G] life
[G7]Something foolish happens and you[C] see
In the Middle of it[G] all is me 
Seems I cause you so much[D7] misery
But I will love you all my[G] life
Chorus
 
[C]All my life, [G]All I own 
[G7]Everything is[G] yours a[G7]lone 
[C]Everyday[G] my whole life thru 
[D7]I will spend loving[G] you
 
Everybody says for you I'm wrong 
You'll get nowhere Fast with me along
They keep telling me I don't belong
But I will love you all my life
All my life, All I own 
Everything is yours alone 
Everyday my whole life thru 
I will spend loving you
I will love you all my life

Charlie's version of the chords
[D]Your forever telling me I'm[G] weak 
When I'm critized I never[D] speak
I prefer to turn the other[A] cheek[D] [A]
But [F]I will [A]love you all my[D] life
I[G] can never do things right by[G] you 
I'm the kind of [D]man who [G]muddles[D] thruough 
You can find mistakes in all I[A] do [D]
But [A]I will love you all my[D] life


[G7]Something foolish happens and you[C] see
In the Middle of it[G] all is me 
Seems I cause you so much[D7] misery
But I will love you all my[G] life
Chorus
 
[G]All my life, [D]All I own 
[Em]Every[A]thing[Em] [A]is[D] yours alone 
[G]Everyday my [D]whole life thru 
[Em]I will [A]spend loving[D] you

I'd like to just introduce my very special guest today and I'm really honored to have him sat next to me here, the wonderful Charlie Landsborough, who writes wonderful songs and also has a fantastic story to tell about his life, not just his life in terms of being a performer; he's a Christian man. He's worked in every kind of venue that you don't want to work in and every kind of venue that you do. Okay, Charlie, thanks very much for coming to see me later, I'll get to meet you there. Charlie the youngest of 11 kids, I know I don't look as though I was ever the youngest of anything, but yeah, I had a wonderful upbringing and it does the ceremony ground because I grew up in the dockside house and the scene from the front window was the docks the Cold War, the railway lines, and the Wacom Oil Company but the house I grew up in being the youngest, I was doted upon by my mother, my brothers would all be seafarers who came back from all quarters of the year gifts for me, so I had a boat from Africa, silk jackets from Japan, and all sorts of wonderful things and there was music constantly in the house with my mother singing me songs brothers brought the faith guitars we'd ever seen you know it was a crazy moment up performers my dad was a performer it was sort of build locally as the the silver voice tenor he just don't stop still and sank you know normally old ballets so I grew up loving all the old ballad singers and then along with the guitar along came Elvis and everybody else and we brothers with the country music of Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers and we had animals in the house all the time as well rather chickens in the back we had the dog which attacked everybody we had dogs and cats love birds from Africa and a monkey at one stage so it was busy arrows hit it was fantastic I mean there I went back and looked at it before they pulled it down and I was amazed that all these people had lived in this small space and with all these wonderful animals you know so it was a great upbringing and one that was completely surrounded by love and music so what did you know from

being very young that you wanted to be a performer I mean  was that I did that come away sir no I mean my great love as a small boy was football I wanted more yeah and I remember telling me man when she wasn't very well you know I said the touring man when I grow up and want to perform at Wembley and I did perform at Wembley but it was with a girl you know but no I was incredibly shy lad and when I picked the guitar up I thought I'd found like one of the best friends anybody could've given but I still had to struggle to shrug off this sort of cocoon of shyness if you like to go and perform which I started to do once I was 18 United step into the local pubs and sit in the corner and just yeah yes but I know I had no sort of I didn't have any sort of ideas about sort of fame and fortune no I just loved the music yes just a little doing it yeah what I mean my sisters and brothers do know you're one of eleven but Isis have you got have got four well I had for a couple had four sisters four brothers and two sisters have died before I came on the scene right my father my first the first was mother my mother he drowned in the dark and he had small six small children and my dad married her with six small children as their mother said aggie you'll have to put them in a home you can't look after them but we dad said I almighty and I'll look after them and of course then we fantastic so it was a land it's half the family were England's and having a family belong Swiss but I always found it difficult to explain to somebody because I love the England's just as much as I love the lands but yeah yeah and it was a wonderful house with all these diverse characters and this summation of oh yeah yeah so when you when you were growing up I mean what you became a teacher didn't it was like your first was like the first career you art no I did a whole host of things I was a postman in Coventry. I was down and out in ecology, but for about two weeks I was a navvy. I was a driver. I worked on the railways and in the flour mills. Oh, grocery store manager, all sorts of things.

How did you end up in Coventry? Oh No well a friend of mine arrived at the house I haven't got a job I was sort of skins handle and a friend of mine from the Army arrived in a big wagon and we went out and had a few drinks and I said he said what are you doing I said I'm going to Coventry on Maundy I said there's plenty of work that I can't get a job I thought I'm gonna make a fortune in the car factories mm-hmm so he said well wait for me and I'll pack my job up and I'll come with you mm-hmm so we went down to Coventry and he got a job straight away because he could drive I couldn't get a job at all so I was warned in the streets of Coventry and there which was a bit of a was wonderful in a way always remember still in a doorway at a tannin me on which was enough for a cup of coffee and this old Irish fella gone past he says he cares away an old Wars Almanac when I says they forgive me trying to do an Irish accent I said I'm sorry pardon me I'll miss her but I've only got a tonic to me name and he walked on me come back he says yeah god bless he says it yeah any man from goblins a friend of mine and he give me an old Mose Almanac and shortly after when I got this job me first week's wages another eyes went stuck me in the sound looked down and out and he says yeah you're according to you have you got the time now please I said it's ten to mine father you know and he heard the accents and his face lit up and he said you couldn't lend me true Bob could you know and I said no I won't so simple come with me and I took him in the book probable tomorrow for pints and about five batches because he worked about 12 mile a day and I got such a buzz how to see in his face yeah because I've been in the same situation that we've been following yeah yeah and I think by the end of the hour and a half that I was there thinking of his suspicions about my sort of intentions not the yo-yos I was the other way or whatever you knew you understood I took it back to the camp but she was like you know old disused army camp that they give and I said that I thought well I couldn't have him in this little room with me I don't know that man so I said there's a drying out room it was very warm and it's bitterly cold and I gave him my ticket for breakfast in the morning yeah and I think by this time he was getting very doubtful about me but I just had a great sort of feeling after seeing him eating

these bat yeah drink that is a fine saw state feeling well there yes so I I sort of experienced sort of walking the streets for weeks and it wasn't very pleasant I can imagine yeah what Sam when when did Jesus come into your life was we we've we parents Christians no none of the family was a very Christian as well and in fact my sort of birth if you like into Christianity was care to see of a primary school teacher mr. peek who's a lovely man had never even heard it he says I don't think at the time and he told me this story of Jesus Christ and I grew up in a rough area where you know as a little shine court quite timid little flat he had to be sort of a hard case or whatever together right and which didn't fit with me at all you know and this story of Jesus I thought I came out of that class feeling absolutely elated and I was sort of think guess is great I'm gonna live forever and it's good to be good you don't have to be bad you know this is great and when I came out there was an old gentleman and I was very shy an old but carrying a bag how thoughts I've got to do something for this Jesus have just a I don't even know what can I do and I said hey mate can I carry you back for you mister and he turned to me with a nice sort of kindly smile I said how no son he said mother that's very nice of you thank you son and I ran home follow this wonderful feeling that I had and I began to sneak into churches because I I've been you feeling that I got when I was in there and began to read religious books and of course my brothers saw me he said well see what you've eaten there and then pick it up and I was reading then they say you see what all he Jones read near you know and so they ridiculed this sort of infant faith out of me yeah and I buried it photographs till I was about 30 I argued against it violent violently you know I was in the Army a thing like that but it knocked away up here all the time I wouldn't let me be and when I was I was playing in the pubs and things and I came out to poop this day with this thing still been and awaited me and I

thought I'm gonna go and hit somebody with all these questions and I come out this pub where I played for 22 years and I went I said I want to go on every chair took on two till I find somebody he'll give me some answers you know the first year I went into was a Catholic Church he just knew the Pope nobody in there sat there for 10 minutes got on me car drove to the next one and they were holding their things of funeral service and the Seidman at the door said there how can L kiss on I said they kind of speak to the minister please and he said they only went brought some he said what is it son I said I'd like to talk to you no he said well I'm conducting a funeral service now he said but come to my house on Friday and I'll talk to you for as long as you live you know so he went on had sobered up by Friday so it was a bit of a wrench for me to go you know but I thought all right I'll go you know force myself and I went and hit him with all these bolus aggression of your life and he just disarmed me completely and answered everything you know we had he kindly wait and they just changed me completely and at the end of it I also he only said sit legal doubts on the mill say a little prayer you know and I felt felt in the sense that that I thought you know say a little pray  Your Honor I don't know why I was sort of a angry at that but I said the little prayer and as I left did you feel embarrassed about embarrassed yeah that was the word yeah as I left I felt euphoric you know I thought this is fantastic all this rubbish that was lifted yeah and I felt great and he must have regretted sort of introducing me because I pestered the life of him I was there every week and hit him with all these questions and that's where I came home that day I mean wife said where have you been you know because I'd usually been the Pope and I said you'll never guess where is that then I said I've been to church oh yeah I said I have a pin to church I went there but to see the minister and that was it and I remember when I did to the Lord again I did shortly after I did something which I was a bit ashamed of and he stayed away from maturity and I met the vicar in the bank and he said I hadn't seen you for a week or two

​Charlie I said no I said I wasn't well I've told a lie I was perfectly well when I went back and met him and I said listen I told you a lie the other day I said I wasn't a little I said there was nothing wrong with me but I've done something I was ashamed of offence I think I didn't deserve to be and he said that Charlie said you were with the devil for many years he said he's not going to let you go easy he said that you'll find that if you were a drunk you'll be enticed into getting drunk again if you were you chasing ladies you'll find that they'll be throwing themselves out yeah he said whatever your weakness is that devil will approach you with those weaknesses you know so I thought well that's absolutely wonderful and then I somebody came because I could always I wouldn't dismiss anybody that your ho was witnesses came to the house and I thought well I'll have to listen to what they say hmm so I started going to the church with them and then I'd go and relay this to the vicar and I think what did it in the end he was sort of said Tennant said Charlie the Almighty I said he might in the wisdom of the Almighty is a diamond he said and they pick on one particular facets the justice and he miss out all these other paths and the and that's what they focus upon he said but it's more than that it's love and all around and slowly but surely it dawned I mean that that was the wrong pathway and I think it culminated with me saying to them so tell me this are you saying that if if say Albert Schweitzer or sisters mother Teresa it's not with you they're condemned and he said yes and I said well I said to God that I believe in I said even I love some people too much to do then I'm sure the old might look so easy so that was the end of that and then along came the Mormons who visited me and I listened to what they had they put something on the telly showed me this program about the wave of life and at the end of it I said well listen I thought a lot about the Mormon Church on that I saw very little mention of Jesus Christ and I said listen you're very welcome if you never pass in theatres call in for a cup of tea or whatever and gladly I said but I don't think I'll be joined in your church and I went upstairs and I know it sounds very simplistic

I said I'll open the Bible; there'll be an answer on this page, so all these things are hitting me, and on the bottom, the person I paid it to said they will say I am Here I am there do not believe them so and then on my sort of spiritual journey I'm a bit of a spiritual I was enamored of the Irish people which I still have and they're the Catholic people that I've met and I became a Catholic yeah and then shortly after well about a year later I began to question some of the beliefs of the Catholic Church and I still love the people but I disagreed with a huge amount of what was being said yeah in Catholicism I didn't believe in purgatory or Preta Saints and things like that and the reverence of of Mary almost above Christ so I sort of dispensed with that now I hope my journeys at an end because I go to a Bible believing Pentecostal church right and I'm very happy there and I don't find anything that I can argue with no no so from that moment on it sort of came out you won't have barista boating you didn't keep it from your family no no everybody in fact I used to go on the pub and the lancet say cuz I knew all the scandals in the in the town and they're still friends of mine if you say Charlie's got an animal Benji obviously religious not to me and they used to attack me in the pub USA I'm gonna go I said listen why are you all getting so angry I said this Jesus that I believe in the Mane's of me that I'd be as good a person as I can be and they love people I don't want anybody's money anybody's wife and I said I want to be a good person I said why don't you all get something really and slowly but surely you say I found a pen buddies you know yeah I think people have a tendency to criticize what they don't understand really well they do and they want you to be they feel comfortable when you're all going downhill together so if something says to them no hang on and by the way that you live if they sort of saying when he doesn't subscribe to that anymore they feel uncomfortable with that because like shine a little

bit of his light hopefully into their lives of those people where you used to be, you know, so when you were working in these pubs in Birkenhead, I bet you worked in the Atlantic, didn't you? Yes, I did those in the Atlantic, yeah, and what did you do? Did you have ambitions or did you ever think you'd become as successful as you were at that point, or did you just think that would be nice? you know you just perform in pubs and clubs forevermore no I think that although I was sort of it was wasn't about the fame and the fortune it was about the music I thought like I'd like to do something better so I began to write terms of frustration because I wanted to sing and I thought I'd like to sing in a better situation and I began to rise and ironically began to get a reputation as a songwriter and the success came many years later and in fact that was 53 at the time 55 no I'm sorry 53 when the break came but I suppose it was a year and into sort of to show the gift that God gave me to a wider audience and just the pulpit in the you know down the town where I lived you know yeah yeah so it was a sort of yearn and a recognition if you like for the gift that God gave yeah well being a Christian because you'd be a real Christian then weren't you what do you think that sort of in the career that you've had you think it hinders you do you think it helps you Christianity's into the wider world is because more of a nail alien thing that I think than it's ever been before well where does that stand in the career that you have well I don't buy I remember once being given an award in Dublin I got the award for one of three times in you for the male vocalist of the year sort of how that was in England but this was a quite a pretty a warden in Dublin and all sorts of people were there all the hierarchy of popular music at the time I mean Van Morrison the Spice Girls and wet wet wet and everybody was all there and I I won the country music album of the year I think it was only because they couldn't get that like to the bigger better stars to come over but nonetheless please know nonetheless does it was good nonetheless I want it but when I went up they all gave a little speech in everything and I said amongst my thanks I said thanks to the people who know the company that I work with and all the

people who'd helped me and thanks to my Savior Jesus Christ and that's sort of everybody who was a deathly hush it wasn't very it wasn't a cool thing to say but I couldn't care less whether it's a cool thing to say another way I'm going to leave you so it's like me I mean I've been pulled up a couple of times by lads in the town well I like Jesus and I say no son I'm not but I believe in it I love them you know do you like here so I'm very proud to profess my faith yeah whatever and if it's unfashionable I couldn't care less you know no do you think Kim you know going back to your family it was when you did you more you don't ever see you so excited to see you become of a massive hit record no me dad my mum died when I was only like 11 my dad died when I was about 20 so they never saw and some of my brothers never saw much of it really so that's one of the sad that Spectre but I did what happened to me and I would love me mom to have see me and I'd lost have been able to shower it with all the things that you know yeah she lived we lived fairly simplistically and everything she had she was a great giver although she wasn't available you Christian she was a very good person and people say oh it wouldn't be maybe a mummy shoes I remember and I remember the kindness that was in it and one of the things that struck me there was an older lady around the corner who was very very dirty but either has a gold Lizzie and she looked a bit like a witch really but she was lovely and she was always in another house when your mother would let the butter and eggs and things and she came in this day I mean mother's sister was there there was a little bit highfalutin and a business you know sort of frowned upon where we were at and where we lived in I mean they sat there and all it finery and Lizzie came in and she had her old dress on and at the top of it she pulled this out of a pound a multi-lane or whatever said they are and he dares to imagine in a you know and when she'd left even me for me even me mother sister tense when she said Aggie

​Who on earth was that? She said that was Lizzie. she said well I hope I never see her again in here no and she said well she said I suggest you don't call again if that's the case he said because Lizzie is a friend of mine and always will be you know and I thought you know that's fun so honor absolutely yes so she was great hearted character who chose it was supposedly at that time there was an ant I sort of Catholic thing you know there was a bit of a ratio a religious divide which you know like that is in Northern Ireland less so where we lived what was supposedly we didn't like Catholics you know next door was a family of Catholics who we loved very much to me mother was always giving him and look after them you know it's a bit of a different whale to what it is now yeah yeah yeah tell me about the ear teaching days we have primary primary school teacher went primary school yeah I went out come about well I've had a decent education yeah and I'd squandered it somewhat but I was down a whole chiseling away as a gas main in the middle of winter and I saw this you know can't be doing this 150 up what can I do you know so in the Pope that we met a friend of mine and he said when you're going to teaching I thought to teach him he said yeah you've got an education so I applied and I went and sat an exam and they accepted me and they went straight from drilling up rolled out with a jackhammer on them on a Friday and on Monday I'm sitting in this Ethel werewolf College in Liverpool listening to Mozart I thought this is a good move I'm a part of what attracted me I thought this is a nice soft touch you know what after all these jobs at Don ambien navien and all the rest of it that was the hardest job I ever had in me life you know and I trained for three years of in fact one of my best friends in there was a wonderful Jimmy McGovern who ropes although you right - Jimmy fantastic guys I don't know lovely man as well yeah and that was I get when this is some incredible stuff Jimmy he's even then but some of it was a little bit sort of crude you know thankfully all that disappeared

Neal to see the quality of the writing was still there and he can write the most moving things I mean he told me once he said read that show and it was a little passage he written about him growing up and he lived in a an overcrowded house and he got very little attention from his father because of those that situation and this morning he said his brother we'd over his back in bed and he thought he thought hard so he cleaned himself off and he went and sat down and his dad at the big fire roar and it was just him and his dad and he had his dad's attention even though that that was a bit good often at night and he said the way he wrote about sounds so simplistic and his dad said go make a cup of tea Jimmy so he went and described and making this cup of tea and how he felt and everything calling back and giving the tea so it sounds nothing but to have written something so beautiful yeah yes so we have you always had that incredible talent and he'd do the clever stuff so every other like it's something to do between us if it was geography or something I would do it but it was anything really clever Jim anything that needed any clever right Timmy with nearly always had that wonderful Flair but a lovely man as well did you know long we teacher for there for years did you enjoy it pal tonight yeah it's very very glad when I left 14 years has had four useful you'll perform in by them weird yeah I used to get requests in the playground I was playing in the pole of a nice and kids in the plane I'll say who say everyone said would to play crazy tonight UFO so I had wonderful experience yes and some of the songs that were very good to me came from from my teaching because I do an assembly and whenever I did an assembly I'd write the plot of the story and I would always write the song to go with it and I was doing an assembly on friendship and with wonderful intervention by the almighty my sister wrote me this card it wasn't birthday or anything let's use that type of Pierce and it said King Charlie my forever friend and I thought what a great title for a song you know I was gonna she about that song so I wrote this song and I got a little lad called patty in about six foot four now it's a singer to the school and then I buried the song for a while and then years later I was performing

somewhere on an Easter Sunday at the Country Music Festival and sang the song and got this wonderful response to it so what although I did try to be mold my faith as a teacher when I left my wife said you should be very thankful because out of those years teaching came songs like my forever friend things my ears can do if only I had wings special enough songs I've ever written for assembly and I met some fantastic children and there's some great members of staff that was the other friends you know yeah my forever friend is an amazing song almost had me it's one of my favorite songs that you've ever done it's wonderful I saw Mary my mother and my mother my mother passed away probably before it ever became known it's just because it's about Jesus isn't it course it is do you find gee I mean you you had the first take was : my colleague will cause the window well it was the two songs together act well we're going to take a break now and we're going to play my ever friend like and we'll come back and speak a bit more later thanks charlie pleasure thanks Jen, this is for my Savior, Jesus Christ, everybody needs a little help sometimes no one stands alone [Music]. It makes no difference that you are just a child like me or the King of Pine and throw further makes a biast and then the LA everybody needs a friend let me tell you [Music] he's my friend I live in the friend's house [Music] from darkest night Terry was a friend he's my father the friend [Music]. Even when I turn away, he cares for me.

​his love, no one can she [Music] Even if that's how you walk away, he's fine. My son, I forget [Music] with every breath I take.My halo fails to shine sometimes, and I'm not here, but here's mine; he's my forever friend. [Music] maybe there [Music] the darkest night, two rainbows [Music] He's my friend. [Music] You still don't know the one, and Todd, I think it's time you knew long ago and far away that the paw icarus, my friend, died for you. [Music] You'd like to see me [Music] soon but don't know how.[Music] as my friend Richard [Music] He'll be your friend too; using my fur, I leave me there in the darkest night to repose and

 Jesus, here's my baby free [Music] [Applause] [Music] I just want to ask you how many albums you really have: is it 10 or 11? I think it's more than it says in my 20 yard, but is it far more than they ever thought I would have them? yeah yeah Mike sort of we call them career I despair them anybody ever record me so many years ago I did a little tape I went to the basement of a charity in Bolton actually right and I recorded 11 of my old songs mm-hmm my wife was saying moaning at me at the time saying you spending the only money we've got on doing this tape and we can't afford it but it was probably the best move I made for 12 yet us and no one of those songs started to be recorded by other people and it it laid the foundation for what happened to me later but yeah I've got a lot of albums now which I never saw without you so do you when you do you spend a certain amount of your work in life just right and just bend certain days right in order and you just do it as and when it comes to you how does it work no I'm one of those people those sort of disappear into my own little room I've got a study now I thought honey tough set studies but I've got my own room now with me boxing and me you know yeah we memorabilia and everything and I disappear in there and I write I force myself to write and very often with no end result at all and I come out of there very often thinking I was a waste but what in effect it is it's a stepping stone to the next one when you do write something and you can never tell or prescribe you can't say this is the formula I'll follow this formula and it will work, you know, so no, it's wonderful for the other occasion when you do sort of strike it and look at it with, you know, obviously a very deep feeling because all these songs have incredible lyrics, but they're all sort of telling a story when you listen to them.

when you sit down to write what comes first or the tomb come into your head or did you write words down and build a tomb rounder yeah that's the the question everybody asks on that and understandably so it's a mixed you really but fairly oh I sit with a guitar I got an old and all acoustic guitar and I sit at my desk and very often I can think of nothing to write I mean songs can come about from that I mean they looked out the back window one day I thought what can I write about mana and I thought it's raining outside so I wrote a song called it's raining upside which is a bit that because it's never raining inside unless your houses but it's amazing I listen to what people say things that people say and you can get great inspiration from I mean one of the stories I tell is that I wrote a song called passing through and I was in Dublin Airport and there was a number of people getting off a plane and passing was an older gentleman who came over to me spotted me and I was sort of very big in Ireland at the time and came up when I said really nice things to me about the music and I said oh thank you very much I said there you've been away on holiday and he said I know so and he says I live your sight now I said oh even better he called home on holiday he said I know son he said I'm going down to Limerick my brother's just passed away and I said well I'm very sorry to hear that I said yeah that's a very sad reason for going home my greatest sympathy you know and he said to me with this lovely warm benign smile I said our sons were all just passing through enough eats toodles, and I remembered that and wrote a song that I often wondered did he ever get to realize that he had tonight, so I'm listening for phrases. I mean, my brother is good at working on old cars. I had one time and he managed to fix something. I said, "Johnny, how do you do those things? and he said that's a good title for a song, child, so he wrote a romantic ballad, which has nothing to do with old cars. Yeah, just based upon a phrase that I said I didn't pick up on, so you're never listening, not listening to other people's conversations, oh, you listen for something that's said that you think might trigger something; they're looking at some of these situations and seeing what's happening in their lives, and I mean, I wrote two songs about older people that I met from church; one was called Saints for the Lady in the House, and the other was called The Old Folks I

called there was her old out pretty who thought it was left in the house on his own and walking on my memories was written for him that people can associate with and so you're always on the lookout and listening to your own imagination and sometimes I said I take my pencil for a walk round a piece of and just write anything and sometimes something really made sets perks you off sometimes I'll start with an idea and then halfway down I'll write something different I think it's better idea than the yeah yeah it's very very chaotic and far greater some racism may have said exactly the same thing yeah so do you read music no can you sort of write it all down on paper I don't know because I think just what you do just sort of sing the toots and abandon their pick you off may I sing into the fact they used to laugh because they used to sing into an old tape and nobody can use this history used to call it the white noise outwards because all you did is mine scoffs accenting in the background yeah so it was they're very poor very poor now I've got markers about I've got a CD player with an inbuilt mic I just sing into that and firm enough to the producer who sort of brings on all the real players Namath and then it takes constantly from there, but yeah, I'm going back to the music thing. When I went to college, I started off in the religious department, and I was sort of shattered because nobody believed in their. The lecturer was a very cynical man, and I remember him saying one day, Who believes in heaven? and I was the only one with my hand up. He said what we're doing. He said what's it like. Then I said I don't know. He said you don't know what you believe in. I said I don't know, I said all I know is that Jesus is there, and I said wherever he is, that's where I want to be, you know, and I was sort of looking at them with very cynical looks on their faces, thinking, Earth, us, this is no God, and he was part of your course; he was doing bits in other areas, so I was doing music, and there the lady would say, Go away and compose something for a sunset, you know, be as imaginative as you can, and she'd come back

​back it's a wonderful, you know, so he thought this is great, and they said why don't you swap over to the music departments, which I did, thank God, and they told us about music, and although I can't really write, I understand what it is: I wrote piano pieces for the piano all right, and I did it in a very sort of you know, you'd say yeah, that's all right and I couldn't play, I wrote these pieces for her, and I've still got them now; they had these sort of names, like Fantasia, and all sorts of wonderful imaginative titles, and when she played them, I would say, Please, a bit slower, Hurley wonderful woman she was and she played them all and they all the students still don't give me a standing ovation interest, so although I couldn't play them myself, it was a revelation to me to hear them in their entirety when she played the music. Honestly, I can't read music, but I can yeah, yeah, I put it down on a CD now that's brilliant, not you, so you've got this big hit record and it changed your life. You're working in the pubs and the clubs struggling on and then all of a sudden you're catapulted into the families of these big auditoriums. Lots of people come in to see you. Oh deej caught with that but a great difficulty because only this success happened and they said what the Bandag recorded an album in Birmingham and they were it was going to be buried but Gerry Anderson wonderful broadcaster from Northern Ireland who passed away I remember Jerry an earful yeah and a great supporter for me he started playing tracks off it and then he probably got to tell you somebody else wasn't available so they put me on the pedal male I think it was and I got this wonderful reaction and then I got my own slot on Irish television I despaired of anything ever happening and I'd add another rejection and I come away from the phone thinking this isn't meant to be you know but the next day the spirit re-emerged my thoughts no I'm not giving up what can I

do understand a moment about it and I found out a year Dublin and said would you be interested in having me and they said Charlie we've been trying to get even a month can you come this week so he went with just an acoustic guitar and I used to play the bass pedals with my feet and I sang I was scheduled to do one song and he said if I call you back will you do a second and I did forever friends it's uncanny they called me back and they did the second song on the following week I was top of the hours this was preceded to put the the spiritual strands on him the previous year in 94 after years of arguing with the Lord saying why did he give me this gift when everywhere I'd say I get rejected you know what's the point because I believe this is the bedroom the best gift that you gave me and yet I get nowhere I get rejected everywhere and I gave up in 94 I said all right well they give in your will be done if you want to be a teacher than bear canet I'll do it but you'll have to help me out because I don't like it very much you know and this is almost as I said from that spiritual submission yeah that the whole thing began to happen and in January a came to fruition January of 95 with this one appearance and the pack any show and then suddenly I was taken from the duck side Pope abandon put roundly and taken to Ireland and then I'm playing in these huge auditoriums jam-packed because I'm top of the Irish charts singing to audiences and not really knowing my own songs because although unwritten them people in the post didn't want to listen to Charlie  Lance was singin Charlie lands with songs and stickin out wanting now and then I was doing covers so you had this terrifying experience of sitting out at the front of the stage the huge impact the auditorium in front of me the lantern the band in darkness about five yards back and it was exhilarating but terrifying at the same token I was junior yeah did you feel more pressured working in that environment oh yeah theater joy to work in on the real I felt fantastic

hosted listening to me singing Vincent's you know butan song by Dominic land and suddenly there was a v-shaped pop like that you know with a door one side of the V in the door the other and this fella came through the door with a horse he never saw many horses in Birkenhead right through and out the other door and it left a message on the floor as it went and he wasn't doing it sort of laughing for a joke and to this day we don't who he was was amazed I'm no shot at the whole illusion I was to create you know but it was a great problem that respect and I enjoyed immensely some of the characters I met and some of the experiences what doing the theatres is wonderful but initially it was terrifying and for the first couple of years I think I drank my way through it you know to my great shame I think because the press is what it really meant but you started to do your own songs and and yeah oh when I toured it was all my own songs yeah not cover throwing it because that's what people in Ireland knew before that so it is a performer who inspired you what what sing has inspired you well there's a huge variety going back I mean I loved all the old crooners like pink yeah and a penny caramel and then you know I loved all the grace long came rock and roll of course which you know just picked me Lonnie Donegan: When I first read it as a paleo dieter, I thought it was great, and then, of course, Along came Jenny Lee and Elvis and all the rest, and so I sort of rolled on that little wave for a while, and then along came all the great singer-songwriters. Gordon Lightfoot Bob Dylan, The Beatles—did you ever get to meet any of those? But did you ever meet Jerry Lee? Jerry Lee played Liverpool didn't see and the last set of 50 I remember seeing him at the Empire oh no I have met some in short they was on the same bill yeah I know I never met either of them but I met Don overly he was lovely and I sat on the back porch with jump right away thought was fantastic I met Charlie pride and all sorts of people and the nice thing about these experiences you hear these horror stories about people in the business and virtually everybody I've met has been lovely yeah yeah and sitting on the back porch with John fryer I'm still amazed at this day when I mention him and people have never heard of it I think he's a sort of country folk equivalence of like Bob Dylan who writes incredible lyrics so sitting on his back porch drinking a bottle of beer and playing

​swapping sons was was wonderful and the lovely man who sounds as good and on his back pour tea and goes on an album as my tactus and people like Richard Briers who I thought was amazing well I went and said Richard thanks for all the places you've given me he didn't know who I was they said but my favorite was everything crease in circles and said it was my in Tucson thank you I met Willie Nelson down in Brisbane it was a wonder you look like his twin well that's what he said I've got a photograph he's a bit smaller than me yeah but I was able to pass this message on to it because the Aussies knew me he didn't have a clue I was and I was getting photographs taken with him and with these people but I said Willie thanks I'm a great fan I love your music and you've got a very unique style and I said a great compliment was paid to you by a friend of yours he said what was that I said I met a friend of yours in Ireland and I said what's I said I love Willie Nelson what's he like as a person he said of all the people in the business the least affected by success I've ever met is really Nelson mm-hmm and he said to you who said that that's very kind I said it was a Kris Kristofferson and he's looking at me as if to say who is this fellow no I'm excist officer who was lovely as well he's of an island they were in a balancing and the within highway outrunning a highwayman yes right yeah yeah he was lovely as well and so the people that I have met had the good fortune to meet people like George best and I thought was lovely you know yeah so yeah George I fell upon a lovely bloke as well yeah he was the only football I've ever seen that was cheered by the opposition when he came on rightly so that was the talent that yeah if it's something like I'm a bit like a little messy in Spain now a year achieved by everybody but yeah so my experiences of people in the business all Walter the business hacked in as well as the music yeah that's but I've been good you know they're lovely people is there any particular person that you'd like to have met in the business that you do you've not met no I think well there's lots of people that I would like to have met I mean that the likes of Elvis you know you'd say I'd been submitting the people who I should have met I mean I should have been on the same bill as them as I was playing lead

guitar which shows how primitive the band was you know there's you ever heard me play guitar I'm not a lead guitar player really at the time I was wasn't too bad but they were doing a game policy not far from where I lived called The Grove in a ballroom and I was playing with a band called the top spots who became I think later on the other takers and he said tell Charlie not to let us down so Mike would do in the Grosvenor with the silver beetles and I never turned up and missed the chance of meeting them in this of the formative years whenever the silver beat was and then the lad who played in a country band with Eddie Clayton I think Ringo was his best man when he got married and I'm Ringo when they bought Apple sent this letter looked already and said Eddie you still doing our country stuff mate he said send us something down and we'll do it for you and he never did so just lots of thinking if I have a dependency I sell down there's you wanna yeah but I'd like to met them of course yeah yeah it's also wet when when you look at your career now it must you must give you admit I mean you are a word aren't you of the joy that you give to be only a very modest man aren't you but the chosen one suppose I mean I remember you did a TV short revelation TV were you actually sang and chatted and that kind of thing and the response that was incredible people ringing the studio in tears not because they wanted you to get off so because they were so moved by what you were doing oh that's a nice but yeah well of course you'd become aware that that what you're doing has an effect on people hmm and that's very humbling every single night when I go to bed amongst the prayers of thanks I've got a lot to be thankful for, so I say thank you for this gift lot, the musical gift he gave me, and for all the pleasure that it enabled me to give to all the peers and that they'd given to me because it's a reciprocal thing, you know? Yeah, so yeah, I'm very conscious of the fact that music can touch and move people, and I said it's the ultimate drug in a nice way  not to let us down so Mike would do in the Grosvenor with the silver beetles and I never turned up and missed the chance of meeting them in this of the formative years whenever the silver beat was and then the lad who played in a country band with Eddie Clayton I think Ringo was his best man when he got married and I'm Ringo when they bought Apple sent this letter looked already and said Eddie you still doing our country stuff mate he said send us something down and we'll do it for you and he never did so just lots of thinking if I have a dependency I sell down there's you wanna yeah but I'd like to met them of course yeah yeah it's also wet when when you look at your career now it must you must give you admit I mean you are a word aren't you of the joy that you give to be only a very modest man aren't you but the chosen one suppose I mean I remember you did a TV short revelation TV were you actually sang and chatted and that kind of thing and the response that was incredible people ringing the studio in tears not because they wanted you to get off so because they were so moved by what you were doing oh that's a nice but yeah well of course you'd become aware that that what you're doing has an effect on people hmm and that's very humbling every single night when I go to bed amongst the prayers of thanks I've got a lot to be thankful for, so I say thank you for this gift lot, the musical gift he gave me, and for all the pleasure that it enabled me to give to all the peers and that they'd given to me because it's a reciprocal thing, you know? Yeah, so yeah, I'm very conscious of the fact that music can touch and move people, and I said it's the ultimate drug in a nice way because when you do something, write something, and create something, you find that it brings pleasure absolutely, conservation as well as the consolation of others.

meaning to somebody you want to keep repeating it you know so it's it's a it's a blessing when you have you ever written stuff that you thought this will never be a success and have you written stuff that you thought would be a success and hasn't been a success yeah both I mean there I've written songs that I buried I mean I've got a draw about four foot high Chester drawers if you like full of tapes with ideas on and I've got a drawer about two feet wide or whatever and it's full of books back-to-back with lyrics in it sounds wonderful but I suppose only a very tiny tiny percentage of that it's worth anything but at times you can surprise yourself I remember looking through a book and I'd written a song for a school assembly called special and I got a little girl to sing it to the whole school and the essence of it was that were all special in God's eyes you know everybody used to say that the kids in school listened love especially those with low self-esteem there was never anybody walked the face of the earth like you before or ever will again you know one off you know so I wrote this song called special and a little girl who's having a tough time and sang it to the school and particularly to her own mother and I buried that song and I found it and recorded it with a little school choir from the Midlands and I got the the opportunity is singing that at the Special Olympics in Dublin and that had an effect on quite a lot of people so I'd forgotten that so occasionally you can look back and surprise yourself and when I did that Special Olympics I'd read a book in one of these fireside boxes so I read a story in a fireside book about the Special Olympics and it said a lot of down syndrome children and things and they set off in the hundred metres - eeeh whatever it was the gong wins and they all started running down the track and one little had had fallen that the Stars and here's himself and they as they were run in the head and crying and they all stopped and they all went back picked him up and they all run down the track together and cross the line together and they I thought that was cute and the whole stadium rose and I gave them a huge applause yeah and I sang to this like sea of faces and somebody said that must have been sad I said you're joking aren't you mostly I never season born joyous crowd of people it took me about

two hours to get out because they all want to put that on and kiss here and thank you you know so we're and that came about through a song that I don't say I'd forgotten to you tell me what inspired my forever friend what well that was the letter from his sister saying Charlie my forever friend and me writing this song for another school assembling said we should be thankful for and I thought and although it was me right now in almost childlike terms and I suppose the messages no matter who you are, how big you are, fame, physique, or whatever else, ultimately you're going to need the forever friend who is our Lord Jesus Christ and I think the simplicity of it gets to people I didn't realize at the time that that song would have an impact upon people. A little lad at the time called Paddy, who's now a big, big troll, sang it to the school, and they got a lovely reception in the school from the staff and everything, and I forgot that song and played it again. I was doing a country music festival in Norfolk and it was a Easter song he's always sang the song and got this wonderful response to it kept on playing it and and I've had all sorts of things like it was played in the I sang it in the tube Cathedral to a gathering of all the sorts of Irish elite if you like from the chair come from politics it was played in I think it was a charity in Cathedral in Boston and you know Easter Sunday or something so I didn't realize at the time the impact that song would have upon me as well as I was asking you before you I mean but he can't possibly be a word at the time can you of what it's gonna do to people no well it's similarly with the song the other song they helped me was what color is the wind and I was attending a plane at a club in Southport not far from where I live and that was the first big song on it yes I'm a lad appeared an old friend of mine used to sing around the country music clubs and we had a pint together he said Charlie I've got a title for you. He said the blind girl was overhead saying this to her father or his father; I don't know whether it was a boy or a girl, and they said what color is the wind, and I thought he said I can do nothing with

it so I'm giving it to you and I said amongst her birthday was my birthday and once the presents I was given that day two CDs and books and everything that was by far the greatest and they went away and wrote the song and which was a very daunting task because to try and write other things without stepping over the line into the moorland and slow which is very difficult when I'd written it I called my middle son Alan who can be very forthright and honest and I said what do you think of this sound and he said and so right it's quite serene like yeah you can play that dad so I the first time I ever played it that chap would give me the title was in the audience in Blackpool and a poet Laden and got this fantastic response and everywhere I play there I kept getting this wonderful response and people were asking me for the song people who'd already had some success and my wife said you give that away she said I'll strangle you so to avoid strangulation I kept it and I thank God I did because you know the trick for me Yes, amazing. It's been a joy speaking to your child. It's been a joy to meet you. The thing that I wanted to say was, What advice would you give to anybody who's got a talent like yours and is just starting out? Well, I would say, Believe in yourself. Plow your own musical path. Find your own musical fingerprints. be inspired and you know inspired by all the other people that you can I am limits bowed by many many people and stick to it and face rejection because if you do get rejected there's far greater people than me and you out there the people with Elvis Presley they were all rejected and I think on my side all the time was the Almighty so if you've got him and you've got everything you know I would say whatever the situation is and whatever walk of life unit the first thing you need to do is to be right with him and to find him find a way back to yes for the good Lord Jesus Christ so all of those things believe in him find your own your own pacifier really be yourself you know it sounds a years ago when people would say be yourself let's see who else can you be you know you can only be but it's not there's an awful lot of people out there they were doing what they think the world would like

because they are the same one, Who am I? Be the best person you can be. God made you an individual. Be as much of that in an obviously visual way as you can use a clear in every other way. Yeah, absolutely. Or any of your children in the business? Not in the business? No, they can all play. And I've got two friends who are great guitar players, and they both write. In fact, one of them's got an hour I'm out but a little head off. You know what they all love music? It sits in the family and will carry on. And my grandkids? They love music. One of them's learning drums. Do you want to learn the guitar? Yeah, you abandoned the fantastic band, and you've got a great lead guitar. Yeah, well, it's changed, but I've got another one now, the lead guitarist you're probably talking about. I was John Pettifer, who I think is world class, who's moved to Ireland, and I've always been lucky in being surrounded by fantastic musicians. The drama that we used to have was Jerry We often Birkenhead No. No. Some I said it's a real mixed bag because originally we were all bronies who ought to be developed for they see that would be smuggling it in Daddy was there. Shirley Bassey's drummer for like 15 years, I absolutely sort of Sunday stropped, and I said surely without this break-in Island we've got to put this band around you, and I'm sitting there singing my own songs to this wonderful musical backdrop that they'd all provided incredible musicians, and I've always been very blessed in the people around me musically and in every other sense, you know, so yeah, that money Charlie's, but an absolute honor, thank you. So doing this today, I appreciate it will be to God. God bless.

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