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Wayne Mason

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The story of songwriter Wayne Mason is familiar enough. Born in 1949 in New Plymouth with his teenage years spent in Upper Hutt, in 1963 he joined Heretaunga College band Sine Waves, which evolved into The Fourmyula, one of New Zealand's top bands of the 1960s. His next band of note was Rockinghorse, and in the 1980s there was The Warratahs. Three top NZ bands over three decades but hardly a household name, not like Dave Dobbyn or Neil Finn, despite that song. "Oh that song!" mimics Wayne Mason. "That's how a lot of my audiences react when I play 'Nature' – oh, he wrote that song." In 2001 Mason's song ‘Nature’, recorded by The Fourmyula in 1969, was chosen by APRA members to be the best New Zealand composition of the previous 75 years. It has been a hotly debated issue since (check out the NZ music social media pages) and everybody has an opinion. Best New Zealand song? It was always going to be a big call, but whether you agree or not, ‘Nature’ got the nod and there has been no other “official” survey since. (Read more...)

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4 Replies to “Wayne Mason”

  1. Christine Robertson

    Hi
    Is it possible to get the lyrics of ‘Come With Me’ by the Fourmyula please. It is for my personal collection. The songs i enjoy i download them to enjoy when Im feeling a bit down

    Thank u
    Mrs) Christine Robertson

    • Mark

      Hello Christine. Here are the lyrics to that track:

      Like looking out across the sea of dreams
      The horizon looks much closer than it seems
      Come take a boat with me girl
      An enjoy the realms of dreamworld
      Come with me

      We’ll see colours like you’ve never seen before
      Nice colours that each one of us can draw
      For it’s simple and it’s easy there
      It’s written to be seen there
      Come with me

      Come with me we’ll be gone join our hands and sing a song
      And we’ll all soon be there
      There’s no worries there’s no cares
      All our troubles melt in air
      And we’ll all soon be there

      It’s time to go and I must take our leave
      We’ll say goodbye and drift off with the breeze
      Once there I’m sure you’ll find that
      There’s no place on Earth just like it
      Come with me

      Come with me we’ll be gone join our hands and sing a song
      And we’ll all soon be there
      There’s no worries there’s no cares
      All our troubles melt in air
      And we’ll all soon be there

      Like looking out across the sea of dreams
      The horizon looks much closer than it seems
      Come take a boat with me girl
      An enjoy the realms of dreamworld
      Come with me

      Come with me we’ll be gone join our hands and sing a song
      And we’ll all soon be there
      There’s no worries there’s no cares
      All our troubles melt in air
      And we’ll all soon be there

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