Here's a link to part 1 of this old thread that just got revived - it was getting a bit long at nearly 100 posts. But we're all getting older all the ti8me, so it's still relevant enough
And to allow continuity, I have put in the last few posts from part 1:
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: Lanfranc
Date: 01-Jan-01 - 01:44 PM
Can't believe I missed this thread on its previous iterations, but still, here's my Euro 0.02 worth!
"Old Man's Song" 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: 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: rangeroger
Date: 01-Jan-01 - 02:01 PM
Tom Rush does a great version of Murray McLaughlan's " The Old Man 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: Rowana
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
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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
In the shadow of the great world war
The third child grandma had
Came into the world
On a rolling farm in Maryland
When Wilson was the president
And summer blew her goodbyes through the trees
A child of changing times
Growing up between the wars
The Fords rolled of the lines
The bars all closed their doors
And I imagine you back then
With snap brim hat and farmer's tan
Where the horses drew their wagons through the fields
Chorus
Now the fields are all four lanes
And the moon's not just a name
Are you more amazed at how things change
Or how they stay the same
And do sit here on this porch and wonder
How the time flies by
Or does it seem to barely creep along
With 75 septembers come and gone
Were the fields all gold and fawn
Was the spring house dark and cool
Did the rooster crow at dawn
When they got you up for school
And would you tell me once again
The tales of grandma's hired men
And how they drove the dirt road to town
Repeat chorus
Reminds me a lot of the way my dad grew up.
Thom
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