Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: EBarnacle Date: 03 Jun 07 - 10:44 PM How'd we get this far without mentioning the Dutchman? re: Seeger's "How do I know my youth is all spent?..." I once asked him how come the melody is so similar to Officer Krempke's chorus in Bernstein's West Side Story. He commented that they are probably both descended from Fair Harvard. |
Subject: Lyr Add: YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS YOUNG From: Bugsy Date: 03 Jun 07 - 10:31 PM For a song about growing old, you can't (IMO) go past Yesterday When I Was Young Yesterday when I was young the taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue. I teased at life as if it were a foolish game, the way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame. The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned I always built alas on weak and shifting sand. I lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day and only now I see how the years ran away. Yesterday when I was young so many drinking songs were waiting to be sung, so many wayward pleasures lay in store for me and so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see. I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out, I never stopped to think what life was all about and every conversation I can now recall concerned itself with me and nothing else at all. Yesterday the moon was blue and every crazy day brought something new to do. I used my magic age as if itwere a wand and never saw the waste and emptiness beyond. The game of love I played with arrogance and pride and every flame I lit too quickly quickly died. The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away and only I am left on stage to end the play. There are so many songs in me that won't be sung, I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue. The time has come for me to pay for yesterday when I was young. CHeers Bugsy adyedinthewoolaznavourfan. |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: Joe_F Date: 03 Jun 07 - 08:47 PM Stan Rogers, "Sailor's Rest" Tom Lehrer, "When You Are Old and Gray" |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: GUEST,meself Date: 03 Jun 07 - 07:51 PM Think I mentioned this on another thread once ... Sonny Boy Williamson II has a song called "Too Old to Think". Not one of his cheerier numbers ... |
Subject: Lyr Add: OLD FRIENDS (Mary McCaslin) From: Stewart Date: 03 Jun 07 - 07:42 PM OLD FRIENDS -- Mary McCaslin I saw an old friend the other day, in San Francisco, by the bay. It took me back to only yesterday, the years somehow let slip away. We laughed and talked about the days gone by, and brushed a tear away with a sigh. We promised not to let it be this long, like the old refrain from an old, old song. Chorus: Remember old friends we've made along the way. The gifts they've given stay with us every day. Looking back it makes me wonder, where we've gone and how long we'll stay. I know the road brings rain and thunder, but for the journey, what will we pay? I often think the time get crazier as this old world goes 'round and 'round, But just the memory makes it easier, as the highway goes up and down. Lately word's been coming back to me, there's a few I will no longer see. Their faces will be seen no more along the road, there'll be a few less hands to hold. But for the ones whose journey's ended, though they started so much the same. In the hearts of those befriended, burns a candle with a silver flame. A very late answer to Barbara's request 20 Dec 05 And a sound clip HERE . One of my favorite songs by Mary. Cheers, S. in Seattle |
Subject: Lyr Add: MISTS OF TIME From: Ebbie Date: 03 Jun 07 - 05:27 PM Guest/Lumpyhand, I have a song about Alzheimers- or some kind of dementia: Mists of Time I remember I once had a family And I know that I was happy then For I can see their bright little faces But I don't know where or when Memories lost in the mists of time I don't know much anymore The years, the days, the hours All run together Memories lost in the mists of time Yesterday Or was it just this morning? They gathered 'round my rocking chair I recall the scent of many candles But I knew nobody there. I like Jesse Winchester's 'We'll Never be this Young Again'. And the new? song: Bed by the Window |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: Big Jim from Jackson Date: 02 Jun 07 - 11:12 PM Australia's John Williamson does a song called "Wrinkles" that I really like. The Kossoy Sisters have a song "An Old Love Song" that is wonderfully funny. |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: GUEST,meself Date: 02 Jun 07 - 11:01 PM I think we should pause for a moment to remember all those who were really old back when this thread started ... |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: GUEST,lumpyhand Date: 02 Jun 07 - 10:07 PM ...but perhaps the saddest song of all is My Mom by Chocolate Genius - it is on Itunes or Google it - it was also on Spinner's recent list of the top 25 Most Exquisitly Sad Songs: "And five times exactly no more or no less She says how you been eating boy? I say okay I guess In this room where she made me each day she grows weak She flips on the Golden Girls and the first tear hits my cheek" ...for anyone whoever had a parent, friend or relative die of Alzheimer's (for me my mother)this song hits you right in the emotional gut - check it out - hope you like it. |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: ossonflags Date: 21 Dec 05 - 07:47 AM "200 year old alchoholic" |
Subject: Lyr Add: TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG (Murray Grand) From: C-flat Date: 20 Dec 05 - 03:51 PM TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG Murray Grand Gmaj9 Gm7 Let me run in front of trucks, smash the mirrors on my walls, Gmaj9 Am7 Bm7 Cmaj7 Bm7 Let me puff away and choke, sniff a little coke, and have myself a E9 ball. Am7 D9 G What the hell! I'm too old to die young. Let me walk against the lights. Let me drive while I am drunk. Let me be a little hip, take a little trip, and try a little junk. After all, I'm too old to die young. Cm7 F9 Let me pick up strangers in the street, Bm7 E9 Sleep with ev'ryone I meet, (middle) Am7 D7-9 Sleep in dives along the docks, Eb9+11 vodka on the rocks Let me stay a little stoned who's to know and who's to care let me take another trip, be a little hip, breathe polluted air What the hell, when your spring has been sprung, after all I'm too old to die young. Let me sing away all my blues, fall in pot-holes if I choose When people say I'm a sight, they're probably right! (middle) Let my face begin to fall let it wrinkle like a prune well I know my liver's gone, when I'm lying on the floor of some saloon Give me speed, give me hash, let me fly, let me crash, drop the bomb on my head, not a word will be said, not a moan, not a sigh, as I kiss my assets goodbye, after all I'm too old to die young. C-flat |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: GUEST,bhood624@yahoo.com Date: 20 Dec 05 - 02:44 AM Hi, I'm hoping someone has the lyrics to Mary McCaslin's Old Friends. I heard it sung as a tribute to a friend recently and can't find the words. Thanks, Barbara |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: GUEST,eileen Date: 03 Apr 04 - 05:29 AM Also surprised to see (unless I missed it) When You and I Were Young Maggie..particularly the version that mentions "the creaking old mill". |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: GUEST,farmer77jo@yahoo.ca Date: 02 Apr 04 - 11:04 PM Any suggestions for a birthday party of 3 folks turning 40, 50 and 60 all at the same time (roughly)??? |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 16 Feb 02 - 06:36 AM At 97 posts (98 now) this is a bit long for many people to load - so I've put up a part 2, and suggest people continue posting there rather than here. |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: Genie Date: 16 Feb 02 - 05:51 AM Years From Now Where've You Been? Love, Me Old Love A Daisy A Day |
Subject: Lyr Add: 75 SEPTEMBERS^^ From: Ribbit Date: 01 Jan 01 - 05:40 PM Peter Paul, and Mary have a great song "75 Septembers" written by Cheryl Wheeler.
Inthe year of the yellow cab
Reminds me a lot of the way my dad grew up. |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: R! Date: 01 Jan 01 - 03:58 PM There's an old music hall song called My Old Dutch. The singer is remembering his wife when she was a dark haired, fresh cheeked girl of eighteen. Don't remember anything but the chorus: We've been together now for forty years And it doesn't seem a day too much For there ain't a lady living in this land As I'd swop for me dear old Dutch. Sentimental but sweet. Dutch = Duchess of Fife = wife. Rowana |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: rangeroger Date: 01 Jan 01 - 02:01 PM Tom Rush does a great version of Murray McLauchlan's "The Old Man's Song". The Chet Atkins song that jamesjim was looking for back in July, is "I Still Can't Say Goodbye". It is on the CD Chet Atkins,C.G.P.(certified guitar player). rr |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: Lanfranc Date: 01 Jan 01 - 01:52 PM Correction - Home from the Forest is in the DT |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: Lanfranc Date: 01 Jan 01 - 01:44 PM Can't believe I missed this thread on it's previous iterations, but still, here's my Euro 0.02 worth! "Old Man" by Randy Newman, recorded by Art Garfunkel among others. It's about a younger man bidding farewell to a dying older man, perhaps his father. Very sad, but a brilliant song. "Home from the Forest" by Gordon Lightfoot, which I have always reckoned to be the equal of "Streets of London". "Josephine, for better or for worse" by Dave Cousins of the Strawbs may not be another "Chanson des vieux amants", but handles the same sentiments more simply. "Bronco Bill's Lament" by Don McLean fits the category. I don't believe any of the above are in the DT, if anyone's interested, I could remedy this. |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: Peter T. Date: 01 Jan 01 - 01:33 PM I was a lot younger when this thread began (cue for a song!!!!)yours, Peter T. |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: kendall Date: 01 Jan 01 - 01:30 PM Nancy King - "Weave and Spin" is the song - "Aragon Mill" |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: Amergin Date: 01 Jan 01 - 01:17 PM I imagine that Kat could write her own songs about getting really old.... |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: jaze Date: 01 Jan 01 - 01:10 PM Lover's Return--recorded by The Carter Family/Linda and Emmylou and also Kate Wolf Old Friends by Mary McCaslin |
Subject: Lyr Add: VERONICA (Elvis Costello) From: Lonesome EJ Date: 18 Jul 00 - 06:23 PM VERONICA Is it all in that pretty little head of yours? What goes on in that place in the dark? Well I used to know a girl and I would have sworn that her name was Veronica Well she used to have a carefree mind of her own and a delicate look in her eye These days I'm afraid she's not even sure if her name is Veronica CHORUS: Do you suppose, that waiting hands on eyes, Veronica has gone to hide? And all the time she laughs at those who shout her name and steal her clothes Veronica Veronica Did the days drag by? Did the favours wane? Did he roam down the town all the time? Will you wake from your dream, with a wolf at the door, reaching out for Veronica Well it was all of sixty-five years ago When the world was the street where she lived And a young man sailed on a ship in the sea With a picture of Veronica On the "Empress of India" And as she closed her eyes upon the world and picked upon the bones of last week's news She spoke his name out loud again Chorus Veronica sits in her favourite chair and she sits very quiet and still And they call her a name that they never get right and if they don't then nobody else will But she used to have a carefree mind of her own, with a devilish look in her eye Saying "You can call me anything you like, but my name is Veronica" Chorus Elvis Costello wrote this song about his aunt. |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: GUEST,Nancy King Date: 18 Jul 00 - 05:42 PM There's a dandy labor song called "Too old to work and too young to die." I have a record of it somewhere--Pete Seeger, maybe? Nancy |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: SINSULL Date: 18 Jul 00 - 04:25 PM "When Your Old Wedding Ring Was New." |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: TheOldMole Date: 18 Jul 00 - 01:56 PM The Bard of Armagh |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: Mbo Date: 18 Jul 00 - 01:43 PM "Just No Time At All" from the musical Pippin by Stephen Schwartz. --Mbo |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: The Shambles Date: 18 Jul 00 - 01:39 PM Autumn Gold. A link to The Mudcat Songbook. |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: GUEST Date: 18 Jul 00 - 05:32 AM A favorite of mine is Ralph McTell's song Naomi. It's in the forum here |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: Mbo Date: 18 Jul 00 - 12:34 AM Queen also does a cool skiffle/vaudeville type songs called "Good Company" about getting older. A funny song, with ukelele and elecric guitars imitating a Dixieland jazz band! --Mbo |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: JamesJim Date: 18 Jul 00 - 12:30 AM I am trying to remember a song written by Chet Atkins, about 7 or 8 years ago. It was about the memory of his father. I simply could not listen to him sing it without crying. Somewhere, I have a tape and I'm ashamed to admit that although I once learned it (it moved me so), it is now lost in the fuzzy files of my memory. This surely is a sign of age. Please help me remember it. |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: bob jr Date: 18 Jul 00 - 12:02 AM there is also a great song about being old by The Band, called rockin' chair
oh to be home again
|
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: GUEST,Arkie Date: 17 Jul 00 - 10:06 PM Bryan Bower's recorded "The Hollywood Hotel" about a grandmother in a rest home and "Old Lovers" which is on the positive side. Phil Ochs' "Flower Lady" is also a touching piece, assuming the flower lady is old. There is the western classic "I'd Like to Be in Texas (When They Roundup in the Spring)." |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: Mbo Date: 17 Jul 00 - 09:44 PM Hah! What about "My Generation" by The Who? Or "These Are The Days of Our Lives" by Queen? --Mbo |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: reggie miles Date: 17 Jul 00 - 09:39 PM Here's one I don't believe anyone's mentioned yet, "You're Gonna Look Just Like A Monkey When You Get Old". I have a copy of this by The Siegel/Schwall Band. |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 17 Jul 00 - 08:39 PM Robert Lee, I'm glad I looked through the thread. I was in a hurry, and was about to commit the sin of adding to it without having seen if anyone had already put in what I was about to do, and Lo and Behold, you had already referred, though in incomplete form, to "Get Up And Go," which is one of my great favorites. I sing this all the time, and am glad to know that you like it too. Dave Oesterreich |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: SINSULL Date: 17 Jul 00 - 11:46 AM The Everly Bros. did "Rocking Alone in an Old Rocking Chair" The Gay Nineties Classic "Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May?" |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: celticblues5 Date: 16 Jul 00 - 10:24 PM The Jacques Brel song is in the Judy Collins songbook. It's a beautiful piece just as an instrumental, too. I guess I always thought the naughty version of "John Anderson, My Jo" was the original and that the bowdlerized (sp?) version came later! ;-) I can't believe no one's mentioned (unless I've missed it) "Maids, When You're Young, Never Wed an Old Man." It's in the DT. |
Subject: LYR ADD: Look up for "When this old hat" From: Jeri Date: 16 Jul 00 - 09:43 PM Refresh for song collection. |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: Nonie Rider Date: 26 Nov 97 - 01:21 PM Of course, if you want silly rather than touching, there's "Old Blevins" by the Austin Lounge Lizards: guy has a fight with his woman, goes into a bar, and is earnestly confronted by Old Blevins, who has some words of wisdom for him:
And he said "Bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla In San Francisco After several verses of this (with some silly insertion lines including "Bla bla bla Had no effect on me" and "Bla bla bla bla bla Mistakes were made"), the younger guy has indeed found the wisdom he was seeking, and goes back to make up with his woman so that he doesn't end up a lonely old fool in a bar muttering "Bla bla" to strangers.
|
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: Bill Wood Date: 24 Nov 97 - 10:07 PM Bruce Philip's "old woman" in the Goodnight Loving Trail is the cook on the cattle drive; He has another great song about aging -- All Used up -- I can post lyrics if they're not available. |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: Jaxon Date: 24 Nov 97 - 04:05 PM The Clancy Brithers recorded "The 2,000 Year Old Alcoholic". Top That! |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: Bert Date: 24 Nov 97 - 03:55 PM There's that great song by Utah Phillips. "The Goodnight Trail & the Loving Trail" ...and the Old Woman's lonesome tonight... |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: rastrelnikov Date: 23 Nov 97 - 03:17 AM I think one of my favourite songs on this topic is Clear Away in the Morning by Gordon Bok. It's in the DT. One of the great lines is when the singer tries to describe a woman he knew Nancy, oh my Nancy But he knows he can't put it in words. He just repeats Nancy, oh my Nancy. Not only is the poor fellow to old to work a sailing ship anymore, he can't even relate his experiences, just the memories of the emotions. It's on the first Makem and Clancy album, I believe. |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: mim Date: 22 Nov 97 - 10:42 PM 'Freewheelin' Now' by Jim Reid on the CD of the same name. It's not about really old, only 50, but it's a definitely positive outlook. And nobody's mentioned Maurice Chevalier singing "I'm glad I'm not young anymore." |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: Rob Derrick Date: 10 Nov 97 - 03:26 PM On the Makem&Clancy concert album, they do one called about a _very_ old man. |
Subject: RE: Songs about getting really old? From: Kate Date: 04 Nov 97 - 07:07 PM One of my favorites is Jimmy Buffet's "The Captain and the Kid." Also, Simon and Garfunkel's "Bookends." I suppose the protagonists in "Hobo's Lullaby" and "Mr. Bojangles" (both are in the database) are not all that old chronologically, but I'm inclined to include them anyway, since they seem to have lived too long for the demands of the open road. |
Share Thread: |
Subject: | Help |
From: | |
Preview Automatic Linebreaks Make a link ("blue clicky") |