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18 Mar 20 - 06:47 AM (#4040440) Subject: charlie poole From: The Sandman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFF4ANolpAc dedicated to those who want to get rid of the elderly (Old and Only in the Way) |
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18 Mar 20 - 08:34 AM (#4040455) Subject: RE: charlie poole From: GUEST,jim bainbridge Have done this one for years, Dick- bit too close to the truth for us vulnerable folk- Hazel Dickens has an extra verse |
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18 Mar 20 - 09:08 AM (#4040459) Subject: RE: charlie poole From: gillymor I'm a big fan of Charlie Poole but David Grisman also wrote and recorded a song titled Old and in the Way and named his group with Rowan, Garcia, Clements and Kahn for it. Old and in the Way |
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18 Mar 20 - 11:03 AM (#4040488) Subject: RE: charlie poole From: cnd Fun fact on Charlie Poole: some people say he was the first person to play "Scruggs" style banjo. He broke his thumb in a baseball accident when he was younger, which made it permanently bent backwards and easier to do a 3-finger picking style back before finger and thumb picks were widespread. He used to joking tell people who wanted him to teach them banjo, "sure, first I have to break all the fingers in your hand" |
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18 Mar 20 - 09:02 PM (#4040592) Subject: ADD: Old and Only in the Way (Charlie Poole) From: Joe Offer lyrics posted with the video Sandman posted (uncorrected): OLD AND ONLY IN THE WAY (as sung by Charlie Poole) When you walk along the street How often times you'll meet Some poor old man who's getting old and grey His age is feeble spent In his pockets not a cent And for shelter he has nowhere to go His relations by the score They'll turn him from the door They'll meet him on a street, they'll pass him by If you ask them why they do They'll answer you and say, "He is poor, he's old, he's only in the way" Now let us cheer them all For they won't be with us long Don't point at them because they're old and grey For remember while you're young Old age to you will come And you'll be old and grey and only in the way There was a time, I hear When young was not so queer But since that time there's been an awful change Young men with strength and might To the parents they would strike Yes, it happens every day, that's nothing strange They strike for fear of toil Whose children they would spoil And sure for death ofttimes they do pray For himself and faithful wife been toiling all their lives To find they're old and only in the way Now let us cheer them all For they won't be with us long Don't point at them because they're old and grey For remember while you're young Old age to you will come And you'll be old and grey and only in the way |