“The first verse is a recollection of the second time I took my daughter to nursery, and the first time I left her there on her own. I felt like a criminal! Previously released as a single.”
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Lyrics
How to Say Goodbye
Took you down to the High Road
Where I’d taken you once before
Kissed you and left you crying
There behind the nursery door
From the day our children are born
Until the day we die
We keep on learning to let go
And how to say goodbye
Took you down to the station
Waited with you for a train
A kiss and a wave from the platform
Saw you homeward bound again
Took you in from the car
Walked you down the aisle
Kissed you goodbye at the reception
Once more you left me, with a smile
Walk me down to the station
Time that I went home again
Blow me a kiss from the platform to warm
An old man’s heart on the train
credits
Words & music by David A. Harley. Acoustic guitar and vocal by David A. Harley.
David A. Harley 1949 – 2025
TRAVEL WORDS 
That’s lovely.
A poignant song. Written, I think, for his daughter’s wedding in 2016, but in the end he didn’t perform it.