On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 08:31:13 -0000, "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)"
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bri...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>I think as we get older, we begin to feel that it might be time to grow old
>disgracefully.
> Brian
I have led a good life, full of peace and quiet
I shall have an old age, full of rum and riot.
I have been a good boy, wed to work and study
I shall be an old man, ribald coarse and bloody.
I have never slit throats, even when I yearned to.
Never sang dirty songs that my fancy turned to.
I have been a nice boy, and done what was expected
I shall die an old bum, loved but unrespected.
Collected from Lemuel F. Parton
Recorded by Carl Sandburg