The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #18822   Message #188791
Posted By: Rick Fielding
03-Mar-00 - 12:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: Thanks to an anonymous civil servant
Subject: RE: BS: Thanks to an anonymous civil servant
Way to go Jed!

Once when playing an old folks home, an elderly man came up to me and asked if I would sing "Wayfaring Stranger". Somewhat unusual request from a Jewish man in his 80s..I took a guess, and asked if he was a fan of Paul Robeson? He waxed enthusiastically for twenty minutes about seeing Paul in New York in the 40s. He then brought a plastic shopping bag from his room FILLED with newsclippings about Robeson. A true "old lefty", I enjoyed listening to him talk on and on about his hero.

Rick