(Cry) All the Way Home

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(Cry) All the Way Home was the first song composed by Squatney neighbours David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel, later to become the "Fire and Ice" songwriting team (consequently described by bassist Derek Smalls as being "rather like lukewarm water") of fabled English hard rock act Spinal Tap.

In invoking the waiting for a sweetheart by a "railroad track" (most likely the East London line of the London Underground, the Jubilee Extension not having been completed at that time), the song, written by Tufnel and St. Hubbins in their teens, speaks to the wistful and transitory life of disaffected youth growing up in Squatney, East London. The song was recorded in a studio on Squatney Road on 14 December 1961.

David and Nigel can be seen discussing the song in the documentary This Is Spinal Tap. An impromptu perfomance, with the boys completing a virtuoso duet on a single acoustic guitar, appears on outtake material on the DVD release.