That's what I found at home: 'Run the Film Backwards' and 'Silver in the Stubble' by Sydney Carter; 'Activity Room' by Ruth Pelham, about an old people's home; 'Annie Brown' by Adam McNaughtan and 'The Reason For It All' by Eric Bogle - both about old women dying alone and being found long afterwards; 'Good Bye Love' by Tommy Sands, about having to take his mother to an old people's home; 'How Do I Know' (my youth is all spent, my get-up-and-go has got up and went...), particularly funny if you got a chance to hear it sung by Hamish Imlach; the lovely 'John Anderson My Jo', even with the bawdy lyrics; 'Maids When You're Young Never Wed an Old Man' (ok, I'll take that back!); 'Much Too Much Trouble' by Judy Small and Alison Lyssa, about an old woman who feels unwanted at her children's; 'Nearer To Nettles' by Jez Lowe, about poverty in old age; 'Old Men and Children' by Frank Hennessy, 'The Oldest Swinger In Town' by Ed Pickford, which makes fun of a well-known type, and 'Yesterday's Bread' by Harvey Andrews, a bitter satire on what this (i.e. any Western) society can spare for their old. I haven't checked the DT, but some at least should be in there. - Susanne
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