I'll be doing The Rare Ould Times and others that may be questionable by today's standard this Thursday at a local AOH. The people who will request it are all in their 70s now. I think they'll ask because it reminds them of the Dublin they left and not the Dublin as it has become.

Changing times are happening all around us. I forget who said it, probably George Carlin, "There ain't no present. There is only the near future and the recent past."

Pete St. John had an elegant simplicity in his lyrics.

Don Meixner