The Very Best of the Strawbs: Halcyon Days is a compilation album by English band Strawbs. Although credited to Strawbs it does contain three Hudson Ford tracks and a Dave Cousins solo track (taken from his album Two Weeks Last Summer). The album was released as a 2-CD set in the UK and US. The US release has a slightly different title (The Very Best of Strawbs: Halcyon Days – The A & M Years) and a different track listing. Cover The cover image is of a common kingfisher, a reference to the mythical kingsfisher of Halcyon days. Track listing – UK release CD one "Ghosts" (Dave Cousins) – 8:30 "Sweet Dreams" "Night Light" "Guardian Angel" "Night Light" "On Growing Older" (Cousins) – 1:56 "The Man Who Called Himself Jesus" (Cousins) – 3:50 "Stormy Down" (Cousins) – 2:44 "I Turned My Face into the Wind" (Cousins) – 2:35 "Queen of Dreams" (Cousins) – 5:31 "Witchwood" (Cousins) – 3:22 "Keep the Devil Outside" (John Ford) – 3:01 "The Hangman and the Papist" (Cousins) – 4:11 "Benedictus" (Cousins) – 3:38 "Golden Salamander" (Cousins) – 4:54 "Tokyo Rosie" (Cousins) – 2:49 "Hero and Heroine" (Cousins) – 3:22 "Pick up the Pieces" (Richard Hudson, Ford) – 2:35 Hudson Ford track "Lay Down" (Cousins) – 4:32 "Backside" (Cousins) – 3:50 "Out in the Cold" (Cousins) – 3:19 "Round and Round" (Cousins) – 4:44 "Oh How She Changed" (Cousins, Tony Hooper) – 2:52 In the liner notes, track 16 is referred to as "Ciggy Barlust (Backside)" CD two "The Battle" (Cousins) – 6:25 "Grace Darling" (Cousins) – 3:54 "Blue Angel" (Cousins) – 9:46 Dave Cousins solo track "Divided" "Half Worlds Apart" "At Rest" "Here It Comes" (Cousins) – 2:42 "The Shepherd's Song" (Cousins) – 4:33 "We'll Meet Again Sometime" (Cousins) – 3:12 "Martin Luther King's Dream" [Live] (Cousins) – 2:53 "Burn Baby Burn" (Hudson, Ford) – 3:02 Hudson Ford track "Shine on Silver Sun" (Cousins) – 2:46 "Why and Wherefore" (Cousins, Dave Lambert, Chas Cronk, John Hawken, Rod Coombes) – 5:31 "Floating in the Wind" (Hudson, Ford) – 4:13 Hudson Ford track "Absent Friend" (Cousins) – 4:35 "Part of the Union" (Hudson, Ford) – 2:56 "Will Ye Go" (Francis McPeake) – 3:54 "The River" (Cousins) – 2:23 "Down by the Sea" (Cousins) – 6:19 "Tell Me What You See in Me" (Cousins) – 6:11 Track listing – US release CD one "The Man Who Called Himself