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Funny How Time Slips Away

from Cover Tunes With Dad VI (2024 Remaster) by The Santairs

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Song/Group: Funny How Time Slips Away/The Santairs
Album Title: The Santairs Presents: Covers Tunes With Dad VI (2024 Remaster)
©℗ 2023-Imagery Records/MINE Music Publishing
Released on: 10-20-23

FUNNY HOW TIME SLIPS AWAY
(2:42)

Written by: Willie Nelson (1961)
Original Artist: Billy Walker
Covered by: The Santairs

Players: CLINTON L. BROWN—vocal, guitar
WAYDE K. BROWN—bass, drums

Engineer: Wayde K. Brown

Date: 1983/2016
Recorded at The CELL BLOCK Studio in Auburn, WA.
Mixed and Mastered: MINE Music Studio in Auburn, WA.

My dad taught me how to play the bass guitar when I was 8 years old (though he tells me I was 7.) He learned how to play the guitar a few years before I played bass, (he was a bassist originally) and he taught me how to play many of the oldies (classic) rock and roll tunes from the 50's and 60's. To this day, these are the songs that I love best. Even though my father wasn't a singer, he did all the vocals back then until I gained enough confidence to do it myself. I supplied the backing vocals when needed. The bulk of these recordings were done in one day on a two track recorder he gave me, performed live at home (before we built our recording studio adjacent to the house.) I was 13 years old at the time. In 2016, at age 46, I overdubbed basic drums to the mix, finally completing the sound. None of these recordings are perfect, but that was never the point. We were just trying to record these songs live in one take. At age 15, I finally learned how to play the guitar and started writing my own songs. When my son turned 11, my father taught him the bass. A couple years later, we performed at live shows called THE POTATO(E) FINGERS with my son on bass, my father on guitar, and me on drums. We all shared the singing duties at the time. We recorded a few of these performances as well. So, for this album, it was truly a family venture.

lyrics

Well, hello there
My it's been a long, long time
How am I doin'?
Oh, I guess that I'm doin' fine
It's been so long now but it seems now
That it was only yesterday
Gee, ain't it funny how time slips away
How's your new love
I hope that he's doin' fine
I heard you told him that you'd love him till the end of time
Now that's the same thing that you told me, seems like just the other day
Gee, ain't funny how time slips away
I gotta go now
I guess I'll see you around
You don't never know, never know
When I'll be back in town
But remember what I tell you
In time, you're gonna pay
And it's surprising how time slips away

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from Cover Tunes With Dad VI (2024 Remaster), released March 18, 2016
Clinton L. Brown-Wayde K. Brown

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The Santairs Auburn, Washington

I am a musician, singer, and songwriter doing this part-time but have been doing it all my life. I started singing before I could talk at the age of one, and wrote my first real song at 15 years of age. (If you count avant-garde as a song, then the age would be 7.) I currently own my own recording studio; and I write, perform, and record my own music (and other's from time to time.) I am Santairs. ... more

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