Roger Whittaker
British singer-songwriter and musician
Roger Henry Brough Whittaker (22 March 1936 – 13 September 2023) was a British singer-songwriter and musician.
And I don't know why I have to make a song
Everybody talks about a new world in the morning
New world in the morning takes so long.
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Quotes
editNew World in the Morning (1971)
edit- I met a man who had a dream
He had since he was twenty
I met that man when he was eighty-one
He said: "Too many folks just stand
And wait until the morning
Don't they know, tomorrow never comes"
And he would feel a new tomorrow coming on
And when he'd smile his eyes are twinkled up in thought
Everybody talks about a new world in the morning
New world in the morning never comes.
- And I can feel a new tomorrow coming on
And I don't know why I have to make a song
Everybody talks about a new world in the morning
New world in the morning takes so long.- "New World in the Morning" · video at YouTube
Misattributed
edit- I've heard there's a wicked war a-blazing
And the taste of war I know so very well
Even now I see the foreign flag a-raising
Their guns on fire as we sail into hell
I have no fear of death, it brings no sorrow
But how bitter will be this last farewell
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell.- "The Last Farewell" — though made famous as set to the music and vocal performances of Whittaker, the lyrics of this song were written by Ron A. Webster, a silversmith from Birmingham, England. · 1975 performance · 1993 performance