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Thread #7951   Message #49147
Posted By: skw@
12-Dec-98 - 08:48 AM
Thread Name: Songs about young and old
Subject: RE: Songs about young and old
That's what I found at home:
'Run the Film Backwards' and 'Silver in the Stubble' by Sydney Carter;
'Activity Room' by Ruth Pelham, about an old people's home;
'Annie Brown' by Adam McNaughtan and 'The Reason For It All' by Eric Bogle - both about old women dying alone and being found long afterwards;
'Good Bye Love' by Tommy Sands, about having to take his mother to an old people's home;
'How Do I Know' (my youth is all spent, my get-up-and-go has got up and went...), particularly funny if you got a chance to hear it sung by Hamish Imlach;
the lovely 'John Anderson My Jo', even with the bawdy lyrics;
'Maids When You're Young Never Wed an Old Man' (ok, I'll take that back!);
'Much Too Much Trouble' by Judy Small and Alison Lyssa, about an old woman who feels unwanted at her children's;
'Nearer To Nettles' by Jez Lowe, about poverty in old age;
'Old Men and Children' by Frank Hennessy,
'The Oldest Swinger In Town' by Ed Pickford, which makes fun of a well-known type, and
'Yesterday's Bread' by Harvey Andrews, a bitter satire on what this (i.e. any Western) society can spare for their old.
I haven't checked the DT, but some at least should be in there. - Susanne