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Arts & Culture > Poetry & Prose > Old Songs
 

Old Songs

I felt inspired to add to the oldies Trout and others have posted.

When I was a kid I heard my mother start to sing a song whose first line I never forgot because it sounded funny. Until Youtube came along I never found out any more but now:


Link: https://youtu.be/ZW19AGlRShc

The Muppets sang this one on their show...Like many big-band songs, the words were meant to be playful but if sung today would probably enrage certain tribes. Especially if they watched this video.
I don't know if the insert function worked, so let's try another. Not old but a Rufus Wainwright cover of one of my favorite Beatles songs:

posted on July 7, 2013 9:14 AM ()

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Love the Beatles!!
comment by elderjane on July 8, 2013 4:36 AM ()
You call those old???? To me old is Billie Holiday with "Strange Fruit", Ella doing "A Tiskit A Taskat"
comment by greatmartin on July 7, 2013 10:33 AM ()
Wonderful!!
comment by steeve on July 7, 2013 9:57 AM ()

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