old folks

• brazzaville'in hastings street albümünden bir şarkı. bu şarkıda sevdiğiyle birlikte yaşlanma arzusundan söz ediyor david brown. sözleri de şöyle:
  
  so far away, so like a dream
  a cup of tea with powdered cream
  or comet dust and subway steam
  or 3 kilos of mangosteen
  ayaaah ayaaah mangosteen
  
  an airport lounge in amsterdam
  a summer rainfall in japan
  your cowboy hat, your lovely tan
  with you i'm such a happy man
  ayaaah ayaaah, a happy man
  
  i hope one day i'm old with you
  we're holding hands like old folks do
  with knobby knees and funny shoes
  yeah, that's the future i would choose
  ayaaah ayaaah i would choose
• sözler woody guthrie, müzik mc-kay'dan:):)
  
  oh yes, i was plenty lonesome and i never will forget
  how the old folks shuffle past me - i can see their faces yet -
  eyes all red around the edges and a damp look deeper in
  eyes that's seen their share of troubles that we're always stumbling in.
  foreheads marked and cut with wrinkles like the plow tracks on a field
  cheeks sunk in against the bone lips that never can be sealed.
  hair as grey and splashed with silver as a moonlight winter's night
  faces - faces - faces - what a picture! what a sight!
  faces friendly like a mountain top that stands up in the sun
  when the blank and rotten tenements melt into the filthy slum
  strong and hard but bony faces with a shine of high tanned leather
  faces that had laughed and loved, and cried in every kind of weather
  eyes that looked out of sockets, like a man looks out of jail -
  half a smile and half a sneer - half a love song and half a wail.
  necks and muscles hard as iron once, a little front ways stooped,
  shoulders that had carried whole worlds, just a little downward drooped.
  young heads bobbed along the tight crowd and bellowed out their noise
  that roars just like a cyclone in the younger girls and boys:
  eyes that shot ahead like spot lights on the drifting stage below
  eyes that made my spirits brighter even now that ı was low.
  and i thought, i wondered - which of these
  can look upon the rest of us and say she's really pleased.