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Thread #44310   Message #1071990
Posted By: GUEST
14-Dec-03 - 10:53 AM
Thread Name: Songs about getting really old - 2
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old - 2
Three that come to mind - all quite irreverant. 'Ramblin' Rover' - a Scots song (I should know who wrote it but it's slipped my mind for now) not so much about getting old but advising to enjoy it while yu can! A song that I remember Iain McIntosh singing 'Waltzing around in the nude' (first verse starts ... 'Edna was eighty years old yesterday. She's older and greyer, but then so am I. All of our married life, all of our days, we've started each morning the very same way ... we go waltzing around in the nude ...' It gets quite bizarre in places.

The third song I would love someone to supply words to. Sung by Ray Fisher and written, I think, by a singer from Southampton it tells the story of an old man stuck in a high rise flat who makes sure that out of sight is not out of mind. Familiar to anyone?