Jim Chorley, who has written a new song about Corsham (pic Nick/MirrorBoxStudios)
Jim Chorley, a native of Southampton, came to Corsham in October 2012 as a student in Bath Spa University’s ‘Song Writing’ Masters course. Currently Jim is working as a Art Technician in a Southampton Secondary school. He has now completed his Masters Course and awaits his degree. Jim accepted a commission to write a song about Corsham for Corsham in Music. It is reproduced below.
1, There’s a place in Wiltshire
That is oh so fine and fair
There’s no other place in all the land
That can compare…
Chorus
So wherever I may wander
Wherever I am bound
There will always be a part of me
In Corsham Town
2, Some say Dickens met Moses Pickwick
In the Hare and Hounds
As the Peacocks walked across the court with Capability Brown…
Chorus
So wherever I may wander
Wherever I am found
There will always be a part of me
In Corsham Town…In Corsham Town
Middle section
From the quarries of limestone
To the fields where John Fowler ploughed
I hear Michael Tippet’s symphonies
On the cobbled streets of Town
3, In the winter they would skate
Across Old Corsham Lake
In St Bart’s church I have heard The Sweetest songs of praise
Chorus
Now wherever I may wander wherever I am bound
There will always be a part of me
In Corsham Town…In Corsham Town In Corsham Town…In Corsham Town
Coda
Wherever I’m bound, wherever I’m found
A part of me now… is in Corsham Town
Written by Jim Chorley, 2013
Visit Jim Chorley’s website here.