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Thread #81308 Message #2787526
Posted By: GUEST,999
13-Dec-09 - 02:41 PM
Thread Name: Origins: My Get Up and Go - not by Seeger?
Subject: RE: Origins: My Get Up and Go - not by Seeger?
How Do I Know
(Anon / Pete Seeger / ad. Iain C. MacKintosh / Hamish Imlach)
How do I know my youth is all spent My get-up-and-go has got up and went In spite of it all I'm able to grin When I think of the places my get-up has been
When I was young my days were so full Football and fun every day after school Then I was older, the nights had no end - Wine, women, music and friends Now I'm old, I've had my fling I huff and I puff, I can't do a thing Never you laugh, I don't mind at all - I'd rather be huffing than not puff at all
Old age is golden so I've heard it said Sometimes I wonder as I crawl into bed With my teeth in a cup, my hair in a drawer I hope my glass eye doesn't roll on the floor As sleep dims my vision I say to myself Is there anything else I should lay on the shelf Perhaps I should climb up and sleep there instead For there's more of me there than there is on the bed
I wake up each morning, lift up my head I pick up the paper, when it's all read If we're not mentioned we know we're not dead So we eat a good breakfast and we go back to bed