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A jolly, jazzy ... sometimes discordant...song about getting old .. or rather being old, with referencesto what comes after.

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(two singers, A&B)

A: I'm not the kind to complain that I've never known the score before.
I'm sure I'm fairly realistic:
Toss me a question, I'll give my impresh on this mortal lot: philosophically got, religiously undershot,
so frank it would make you hot, Right to the point.
And when it's all been made clear, I will go and decompose in style

B: That's vile!

A: I really must admit it.

B: It's just the result of some morbid conditioning in your youth!

A: Ah well, the main thing,it's truth.

B: Oh, yeah? Remember when we could stand the strain of thirty?

A: When doubts refrain!

A/B: But oh! You should have seen us in our long johns
Jogging ourselves to the ground in the heat of the day.
And oh! You should have seen us dirty weekend,
flushing away our frustrations in Ilfracombe Bay.

A: It's a drag those passing years:
slowly shrinking our frontiers.

B: But don't worry! No more fears!
Come tomorrow, no more

A/B: tears!

And so we'll all sail away to our happy haven in the sky.
Byebye! We won't live to regret it.

A: It's one of those syndromes you find in retirement
with chits and bowls,

B: Tea

A: Double U R V S (W.R.V.S.) roles.

B: clean shirts to disguise the moles

A: Grandchildren to make us old.

B: Too bad the cost!

A/B: And when our trous have rotted away, you'll hear us from the grave

A: Do what you like!

B: Be what you like!

A/B: It's only Life's Sweet Song!

A: Stop me if I'm wrong!

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from A Gropeof Foolish Poke Songs, released April 19, 2019
All the mgubbins by Jim Bryce.
Remix by the wonderful Graeme Mearns.

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Jim Bryce Edinburgh, UK

Jim Bryce's music ranges from rockish to folkish to jazzish to music-hallish, to material which doesn't tick any boxes. He has also written for theatre, concert hall (squeaky and non- squeaky), film and radio programmes for the under nines.

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