Old Fart Songs

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: Artful Codger
Date: 02 Mar 09 - 08:09 PM

Then maybe senility's setting in, Genie. ;-}

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: Genie
Date: 01 Mar 09 - 03:23 AM

I haven't yet figured out whether this song is about old songs about fart(s) (ing) or about songs for and by people who could be called old farts.

???

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 28 Feb 09 - 05:12 PM

We've been down this road before, it seems:

Songs about getting older?
Songs about getting really old?
Songs about young and old
Songs about birthdays and/or age
Searching For Retirement Songs
Songs about getting really old - 2
Song for retirement party?
Songs about retirement
Geezer Music

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: brezhnev
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 05:54 PM

leonard cohen's tower of song - "my friends are gone and my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play..."

Subject: Lyr Add: OLD FARTS IN CARAVAN PARKS (J Williamson)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 12:45 PM

Found in a blog:


OLD FARTS IN CARAVAN PARKS
John Williamson

Oh, happy travellers are we,
Around Australia in a caravan.
The kids are gone. we have no plan.
You navigate on your engine, man.
Yes, happy campers are we.

And king of the road are we.
Up a mountain road we wind
With a mile of traffic stuck behind.
Two friendlier folk you wouldn't find.
Oh, cheery old chooks are we.

We hit the road and sold the home,
Like a pair of drovers round we roam.
No more winter and no more phone.
We're wild and fancy free,
And a pair of toilers are we.

We'll pick fruit or prune a tree.
Any old job, doesn't worry me.
It'll cover our fuel and the camping fee.
Frugal old farts are we.

And a dear old chook are you,
In your terry towelling dressing gown,
The one you bought in the country town.
Yours is pink and mine is brown.
Threadbare old farts are we.

Oh, jeez! We'll have to pull up again soon, darling.

And a tidy little unit are we.
Everything has a place to be:
A jar of coffee and a tin of tea,
A life for two but not for three.
Oh, sexy old tarts are we.

And we always camp just near the loo
Cos I have to go at midnight too.
Dribble dribble dribble dribble's all I do.
Ah, over the hill are we.

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 11:37 AM

Kieran Halpin's poignant 'Port of Call'


No 60 year old sailor is wanted on the sea
No 40 years of sailing will get them to agree.......

And all those years of working
were they worth it after all
when there's only one more voyage
just one more port of call


Apologies if I've remembered the odd word incorrectly.

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: topical tom
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 08:59 AM

Thanks a lot, Jim, for that link to Lou and Peter Berryman singing "Older'n Than Everybody". I love their songs; always good for a laugh.Thanks also for all the neat songs contributed to this thread.

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 08:15 AM

OLDER'N EVERYBODY by Lou & Peter Berryman.

OLD LOVE by Neal and Leandra.

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 05:24 AM

Is "The wind That shook The Barley" a REAL 'old fart' song?


I'll get me incontinence pads

Mike

Subject: Lyr Add: SHADY ACRES (Janis Ian)
From: bobad
Date: 26 Feb 09 - 11:48 PM

Shady Acres
Janis Ian

So you've grown tired of your parents always hanging around
Now they spoil your children and having grandparents is out
Yes, and they raised you well but you wish to hell
That they'd go away so you wouldn't have to pay for their food,
Forget all the years when they paid for you.

Chorus
Send your mother to Shady Acres, send your father to Shady Acres,
We'll take good care of them, you won't be aware of them,
Send them to Shady Acres.

Well if one of them's dead, don't worry your head, we have a matchmaker
They can sit down and kvetch on the rest home steps while watching Green Acres
Yes, if you don't want to visit, well there's no requisite
We have foster sons and daughters to help all our boarders stop feeling blue
Keep the checks coming and we won't bother you.

Chorus

Yes, here it's so peaceful, they die while they're sleeping, yes, right in their beds
Now there's no need for worry, we have our own mortuary and a beautiful cemetery
Yes, we are good people, who care for the feeble
We've devoted or lives to the husbands and wives
Who don't want their fathers around to be bothers
So send 'em, we're respectable, and tax deductible.

Final Chorus
Send your mother to Shady Acres, send you father to Shady Acres,
We'll take good care of them because we love them,
Send them to Shady Acres.

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: Artful Codger
Date: 26 Feb 09 - 11:27 PM

"Old Friends" by Simon & Garfunkel - still chokes me up...

And "Eleanor Rigby" (sp?) by the Beatles

"On Board a 98"?

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 26 Feb 09 - 09:13 PM

Somebody sang this one at the Middle Bar Singers' winter reunion last weekend: here is is, sung by lyric author, John Conolly, obviously based on the "Hard Times of Old England" but now becomes "the Grumpy Old Men of Old England".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0joRysAQ84

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: Midchuck
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 09:33 AM

"A Couple More Years", written by Shel Silverstein & Dennis Locorriere; recorded by Dr. Hook and by Willie Nelson.

Peter

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 09:21 AM

Topical Tom-

You're more than welcome!

I'm not sure where I got the tune; it's a composite but I'm not sure where all the elements are from other than "Rosen the Beau."

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: topical tom
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 09:04 AM

"Mariquita: Thanks for the link. That's a really nice song, Charley.

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 10:40 PM

C. Fox Smith composed several poems that have been rendered into songs that would seem to qualify.

Mariquita: click here for lyrics and MP3 sample!

There's also "Admiral Dugout, " "Shipkeeper," and "Mainsail Haul."

The ultimate old fart song might be "The Blow at Witch's Hole" which is somewhere in the Mudcat threads as a song challenge (Methane Sinks Ships).

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: Joe_F
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 08:41 PM

"Time, gentlemen, time" surely also qualifies.

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: topical tom
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 05:35 PM

Thanks for all these songs! What a great collection to listen to! Damn good work for old farts! (me too!) lol

Subject: Lyr Add: MY GOOD OLD MAN (from Burl Ives)
From: Mo' Handy
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 07:30 PM

I suppose that My Good Old Man (Richard Dyer-Bennett, Burl Ives) qualifies as an old fart song. The anonymous author no doubt felt that one could be an old fart, even if dead. Maybe the fact that the woman does all the talking has something to do with it . . .

Where are you a'going, my good old man?
Where are you a'going, my honey, my lamb?
Hunting.

When are you coming back, my good old man?
When are you coming back, my honey, my lamb?
Saturday.

Well, what do you want for your supper, my good old man?
What do you want for your supper, my honey, my lamb?
Eggs.

Well, how many of 'em do you want, my good old man?
How many of 'em do you want, my honey, my lamb?
A bushel.

But a bushel will kill you, my good old man.
A bushel will kill you, my honey, my lamb.
I don't mind.

Well, where do you want to be buried, my good old man?
Where do you want to be buried, my honey, my lamb?
In the chimney corner.

But the ashes will fall on you, my good old man.
The ashes will fall on you, my honey, my lamb.
Don't care if they do.

Well, what are you going to do then, my good old man?
What are you going to do then, my honey, my lamb?
I'll haint ya.

But a haint can't haint a haint, my good old man.
A haint can't haint a haint, my honey, my lamb.

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: BB
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 03:13 PM

I think the last one is already mentioned above as 'Take Your Time' by Pete Munday.

There's one called 'Time, Time, Time' that Jeff Wesley, amongst others, sings.

Barbara

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: Gurney
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 11:27 PM

Kiwi one: Bushman's Lament/Rimu and Rata.
English Trad. The Life of a Man.
English trad-like. Wind Up My Clock.

Not sure of the correct title of any of these, they're not in my repertoire. I could find out if anyone is interested.

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: Gulliver
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 09:32 PM

"What used to be my sex appeal
Is now my water spout"

Author unknown (?).

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: Jack Campin
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 08:42 PM

There are few verses of "Sucky bids me" adapted to love in an eventide home by Samuel Beckett, in "Malone Dies". They're all about going hand in hand to the cemetery.

They manage to have it off by him folding his dick in half to get it in. Then she turns yellow and dies. I don't think Hallmark would have asked Beckett to design a Valentines card.

Subject: Lyr Add: FREEWHEELING (Jim Reid)
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 08:30 PM

First heard this in my early 40s, when 50 (half a hunner) seemed awfully old: now it really seems quite juvenile!
You can change the age to suit any level of Old Fartdom too!

FREEWHEELING                        by Jim Reid

I'm getting ower the hill it seems, though my hert it still feels young,
They say when half a hunner's here, your flings should a' be flung.
But I've some flungs I've yet tae fling afore I ends ma days,
And so I don't want to hear you say that "Old, he's past it" phrase.

Chorus
Freewheeling noo, Freewheeling noo, gets easier every day,
Just tak it slow, where'er ye go, freewheeling doon the brae.

I used tae climb the highest hill, I used tae dae sae weel,
But the view is bonnie, e'en frae here, ye're jist as high as ye feel.

Chorus
Freewheeling noo, Freewheeling noo, gets easier every day,
Just tak it slow, where'er ye go, freewheeling doon the brae.

My eyes are gettin' dimmer noo, and specs I ought tae wear,
But there's some things I see clearer noo, and ye cannae ask for mair.

Chorus
Freewheeling noo, Freewheeling noo, gets easier every day,
Just tak it slow, where'er ye go, freewheeling doon the brae.

We've a' tae go a different road, though it may seem hard sometimes,
So let's try to help oor neebour tae get ower his stiffest climbs.

Chorus
Freewheeling noo, Freewheeling noo, gets easier every day,
Just tak it slow, where'er ye go, freewheeling doon the brae.
Freewheeling noo, Freewheeling noo, gets easier every day,
Just tak it slow, where'er ye go, freewheeling doon the brae.

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: Joe_F
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 07:46 PM

doc.tom: I apologize to the shades of Cyril Tawney & Ewan MacColl, of blessed memory, for confusing them.

Subject: Lyr Add: GONE HOME (Bill Carlisle)
From: Kenny B (inactive)
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 07:11 PM

Hi Fossil
"Get away old man get away"
is in the digitrad under G as "Get away old man"

The songs "Last train to Glory" and

Gone Home ASB John Herald of the Green Brial Boys
lyrics & Music by Bill Carlisle
All of my friends that I loved yesterday
Gone home (they have gone home)
Gone home (they have gone home)
The songbird that sings in the dale seems to say
Gone home (they have gone home)
Gone home (they have gone home)

Chorus…., They've joined the heavenly fold
          They're walking the streets of pure gold
          They left one by one
          As their work here was done
          Gone home (they have gone home)
          Gone home (they have gone home)

Life here is lonely since they've gone before
Gone home (they have gone home)
Gone home (they have gone home)
The old weeping willow that stands by the door
Gone home (they have gone home)
                Gone home (they have gone home)    [chorus]

All of my friends that I loved yesterday
Gone home (they have gone home)
Gone home (they have gone home)
The songbird that sings in the dale seems to say
Gone home (they have gone home)
               Gone home (they have gone home)   [chorus]

From the review of Johm Heralds CD "Roll on John"
Gone Home - a song by Bill dealing with the passing on of good friends. A quite powerful song and not at all maudlin. According to the notes, Herald first heard this song performed by Flatt & Scruggs, but had the song also in a copy of the Bill Clifton Song Book put out in the fifties.

Kenny B

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 05:49 PM

Golden Wedding Day
The Good Boy
Silver Threads (the original, not the parody quoted above)

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: BB
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 03:01 PM

And how can one forget 'Generations of Change' by Matt Armour, who passed away this morning?

Barbara

Subject: Lyr Add: ONE OF THE HAS-BEENS
From: JWB
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 02:26 PM

Haven't seen "Fiddler's Green" by John Connolly mentioned yet. Nor "Awkward as a New Chum" -- if that's the title. Aussie shearing song:

I'm one of the has-beens, a shearer I mean.
I once was a ringer and I used to shear clean.
I could make the wool roll off easy, like soil from the plow,
But you may not believe me because I can't do it now.

CHORUS
Now I'm awkward as a new chum, and used to the frown
That the boss often shows me, saying, "Keep them blades down!"

I shore with Pat Hogan, Bill Bride and Jack Gunn,
Charlie Fergus, Tommy Leighton, and the Great Roaring Dunn.
They sent from the Lockland the best they could find,
Oh but not one among them could leave me behind.

CHORUS

Well, there's no use in complaining, I'll never say die,
Though the days of fast shearing for me have gone by.
I'll just take the world nice and easy, shear slowly and clean,
And I merely have told you just what I have been.

CHORUS

Jerry

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: KB in Iowa
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 01:01 PM

Arthritis Blues

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: Dave Sutherland
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 10:15 AM

The Banks of the Dee
Man of the Earth - Bernie Parry
My Old Man - Ewan MacColl (apologies if that was the one mentioned earlier)
John Anderson My Jo

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 09:49 AM

Goodnight Loving Trail

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: topical tom
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 08:55 AM

Refresh.

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: GUEST,keith Ferret
Date: 08 Feb 09 - 09:09 AM

The Old Miner by Johnson Ellwood
Bonnie Bessie Logan, Trad sung by Ian Manuel
Sair Fyel'd Hinny, Trad
Old admirals by Al Stewart
Old Man Inside A Young Man by Richard Thompson

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 08 Feb 09 - 08:01 AM

'Old Man River' could I suppose be considered an old wet fart song!!!!

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: BB
Date: 08 Feb 09 - 07:57 AM

'Didn't I Dance?'
'Take Your Time' by Pete Munday

Barbara

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: GUEST,doc.tom
Date: 08 Feb 09 - 07:33 AM

I think you'll fuind that In The Sidings Now was written by Cyril Tawney and first sung on Westward Television the night after the Beeching Report (which recommended massive cutting of the British railway network)came out back in the 1960s!

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: Joe_F
Date: 07 Feb 09 - 09:25 PM

"I'm In the Sidings Now" by Ewan MacColl.

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: GUEST,DWR
Date: 07 Feb 09 - 08:44 PM

Good gosh, how can we do this without "Old Farts In Caravan Parks" by Australian John Williamson?

You can hear a sample here. http://www.amazon.com/Old-Farts-In-Caravan-Parks/dp/B000THGLUM/ref=dm_cd_album_lnk

Thought I might find the lyrics on line, but I didn't. I followed several of those notorious dead ends and finally gave up. Closest I got was at http://www.johnwilliamson.com.au/html/music.html where there are a number of his songs listed, but not that one it seems.

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: Fossil
Date: 07 Feb 09 - 08:12 PM

Rollin' round the back of my mind is a song I heard when I was a lad. Can't remember it all (well I *am* getting on a bit now), but what I can get is this -

Get Away Old Man, Get Away

Chorus:
For an old man he is old,
an old man he is grey
But a young man's heart is full of love,
Get away old man, get away!

Well I'd rather marry a young man
with an apple in his hand
Than to marry an old man
with a hundert' acres o' land

and so on. Does anyone else know any more?

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: topical tom
Date: 07 Feb 09 - 05:49 PM

I agree with you, olddude. That is a really good song. So funny and with a great melody.

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: olddude
Date: 07 Feb 09 - 05:23 PM

I just don't look good naked anymore


still makes me laugh ... great tune

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: Stonebridge
Date: 07 Feb 09 - 03:35 PM

>Stonebridge - Credit the WRITER not the thief - Oldest Swinger is Ed Pickford's song <

Consider it done.

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: Art Thieme
Date: 07 Feb 09 - 01:28 PM

From Forty To Sixty-five (as done by the New Lost City Ramblers)

Art

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: Leadfingers
Date: 07 Feb 09 - 12:14 PM

Stonebridge - Credit the WRITER not the thief - Oldest Swinger is Ed Pickford's song .

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: topical tom
Date: 07 Feb 09 - 11:32 AM

Here's another one, "Waltzing Around in the Nude" by Dick McCormick.

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 07 Feb 09 - 10:19 AM

"I can't do my bally bottom button up"

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: GUEST,Bob Coltman
Date: 07 Feb 09 - 10:13 AM

Sorry to make multiple messages, but these things come in dribs and drabs (feature of age, get used to it):

When You and I Were Young, Maggie

Actually if you canvass the songs of the last third of the 19th century you'll find a bonanza of songs about old farts. For some reason that period, along with its sentimental classics about romance and lost love, was positively riveted on oldsters.

Hmm ... a feature conspicuously missing in the Tops of the Pops at the moment, circa 2009. Wonder why ... No, I don't wonder why. 'Cause I don't think I wanna know.

Bob

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: Stonebridge
Date: 07 Feb 09 - 10:10 AM

"The Oldest Swinger in Town" by Fred Wedlock

Subject: RE: Old Fart Songs
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 07 Feb 09 - 10:08 AM

Old Rockin' Chair (Louis Armstrong)