The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #16283   Message #151107
Posted By: Edmund Flynn (inactive)
18-Dec-99 - 12:07 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Prodigal Son
Subject: RE: The Song Nobody Knows
he was an exceptional person of many talents, but I never got the impression that he wrote it ... he was very frustrated that he couldn't remember the lines on which I put question marks ... we had to sort of invent them.

and, as I come to think of it, the tune was more sophisticated than he would have been likely to create.