Friends there'll be no sad farewell

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Date: 30 November 2006 19:54:34

Others have said more than I can. I don't think I have the words right now. He was everything that has been said about him, and more. How do you describe someone in words, you just can't. A man of faith and of conviction. Opinionated about everything, interested in people, amazingly observant, in pratice as well as in his photographs. Talented musician, dearest friend. Irreplacable.

One of my abiding memories of Mike will always be sitting singing our way through his Kate Rusby songbook, whose music he loved. On any occasion when people were gathered and there was a guitar, there were certain songs he would choose, and one in particular, which is so appropriate right now. I can still hear him singing it now.

To Canaan's land I'm on my way
Where the soul of man never dies
Where all my nights will turn to day
Where the soul of man never dies

Dear friends there'll be no sad farewell
There'll be no tear-dimmed eye
Where all is joy and peace and love
And the soul of man never dies

A rose is blooming there for me
Where the soul of man never dies
It blooms for all eternity
Where the soul of man never dies

Chorus

A love light beams across the foam
Where the soul of man never dies
It shines to light the shores of home
Where the soul of man never dies

Chorus

My life will end in deathless sleep
Where the soul of man never dies
And everlasting joy I'll reap
Where the soul of man never dies

Chorus

I'm on my way to that fair land
Where the soul of man never dies
Where there will be no parting and
The soul of man never dies

I hope thats where he is now, I think thats what he'd want.