Richard and Teddy Thompson: “Persuasion” (2001)
This pretty tune has a pretty convoluted history. Written by Richard Thompson with keyboardist Peter Filleul as an instrumental for the 1991 film Sweet Talker, it originally sounded like this:
Tim Finn (of Split Enz and Crowded House) loved the melody and wrote words to accompany it, releasing his version as a British single (which is now unavailable so I can’t reproduce it here).
Then Thompson liked Finn’s lyric so much that he re-recorded it as a vocal version with his son Teddy. Not the typical writing process for a song, but the end product is a thing of beauty.
A performance from a Scottish TV show
See also: https://edcyphers.com/2012/10/06/songs-you-may-have-missed-187/
Every Moment Has A Song 