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The Last Farewell
1974 single by Roger Whittaker
The Last Farewell
"The Last Farewell" is a song by the British folk singer Roger Whittaker (music and vocals on the original recording) and Ron A. Webster (poem and lyrics). Whittaker hosted a radio programme in the United Kingdom, backed by an orchestra with arrangements by Zack Lawrence. Roger Whittaker said, "One of the ideas I had was to invite listeners to send their poems or lyrics to me and I would make songs out of them. We got a million replies, and I did one each week for 26 weeks." Ron Arthur Webster (1944–1994), a silversmith from Solihull Birmingham, England, sent Roger Whittaker his poem entitled "The Last Farewell", and this song became one of the selections to appear on the radio programme. Webster was working for a company called "Lancaster Engraving" in Hockley. He was travelling home on the upper deck of a Midland bus on a cold and rainy night and wished he were somewhere warm instead. That is when the inspiration for the song came to him. Webster told the Coventry Evening Telegraph, according...
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