Just Another Diamond Day

This time in 1969 I'd just bought my first album..., 'Waiting For the Sun', by The Doors.
Next was 'Electric Music for the Mind and Body' by Country Joe and the Fish.


Diamond Day was completely unknown, invisible to me....

Just another diamond day
Just a blade of grass
Just another bale of hay
And the horses pass

Just another field to plough
Just a grain of wheat
Just a sack of seed to sow
And the children eat

Just another life to live
Just a word to say
Just another love to give
And a diamond day

Writer : Jennifer Vashti Bunyan (1969)

No one was interested 46 years ago, and the album sold few copies. Bunyan left the music industry, and raised her children. Over the years, the original album slowly became much sought after.  She knew nothing of this, until one day, in the late 1990's, she did an internet search on her own name. 

The album was re-released in 2000, and Vashti Bunyan's music reached a wider audience when, in 2006,  "Just Another Diamond Day" featured in a TV advert for T-Mobile. Here, in 2014, she mentions why she allowed the song's use in an ad.....

From the same album...

Travelling north, travelling north to find you
Train wheels beating, the wind in my eyes
Don't even know what I'll say when I find you
Call out your name love, don't be surprised

It's so many miles and so long since I've met you
Don't even know what I'll find when I get to you
But suddenly now I know where I belong
It's many hundred miles and it won't be long

It won't be long
It won't be long

Train Song