Origins: He's just an old time tramp

Subject: Origins: He's just an old time tramp
From: le cheffie
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 05:10 PM

This is a song (yes another one i picked up as a child that stuck) I know nothing about it but the chorus is something like
"He's just an old time tramp
his clothes are always damp
he lives his life on the road
People pass him by but they never turn an eye
no body cares cos he's lonely and old"

There is a line about the tramp being a soldier in dunkirk and being give medals but no work.

I would love to know more about this song
Regards

Nick

Subject: RE: Origins: He's just an old time tramp
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 10:03 PM

The 'old time tramp' died out at the end of the 1930s. Maybe that's why no one remembers.
I tried googling around, but nothing turned up.

Subject: RE: Origins: He's just an old time tramp
From: Effsee
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 10:13 PM

"There is a line about the tramp being a soldier in dunkirk "....that's way after the 1930s!

Subject: RE: Origins: He's just an old time tramp
From: le cheffie
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 04:12 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Origins: He's just an old time tramp
From: Megan L
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 04:18 PM

We had gaen buddies come past our house well into the sixties. several of them were old soldiers they were always welcome and there was usualy a pot of soup and a roll and meat for them.

Subject: RE: Origins: He's just an old time tramp
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 10:45 PM

Yesterday I went down to church to garden, and two tramps came in to hang around. One was drunk, the other drunker. The first one repeatedly came up to us and apologized because his buddy was sitting in the edge of the bathtub shrine, right in front of Mary's statue. We kept saying, 'It doesn't bother us. Don't worry.' Ten minutes later, he'd be back, hanging on us and apologizing.

Finally I said gently, 'It's all right. She doesn't care. She understands.' That was the thing that finally calmed him.

Twenty minutes later, they left.