The Young Ones
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poliphilo Terry invited us to the summer party at his care home. There was a buffet, there was entertainment. Had it not been raining we might have sat in the garden.
When I first started visiting care homes the preferred entertainment was the music of WWII. "Roll out the barrel", Vera Lynn and all that kind of thing. A little later it was Max Bygraves. Generation follows generation into senescence and the music changes accordingly. At our little party yesterday we had a Cliff Richard tribute act. By the time we reach late-period Beatles it'll be me sleeping through the fun in one of those fusty armchairs....
The singer conjured up Cliff quite well. He had the hair and the glasses- only he wasn't nearly as pretty and if he could reproduce the golden voice he wouldn't be playing care homes. He injected a little satire into the proceedings by insisting he was "Sir" Cliff.
And of course he sang this....
The young ones
Darling, we're the young ones
And the young ones
Shouldn't be afraid
To live, love
While the flame is strong
For we may not be
The young ones very long
When I first started visiting care homes the preferred entertainment was the music of WWII. "Roll out the barrel", Vera Lynn and all that kind of thing. A little later it was Max Bygraves. Generation follows generation into senescence and the music changes accordingly. At our little party yesterday we had a Cliff Richard tribute act. By the time we reach late-period Beatles it'll be me sleeping through the fun in one of those fusty armchairs....
The singer conjured up Cliff quite well. He had the hair and the glasses- only he wasn't nearly as pretty and if he could reproduce the golden voice he wouldn't be playing care homes. He injected a little satire into the proceedings by insisting he was "Sir" Cliff.
And of course he sang this....
The young ones
Darling, we're the young ones
And the young ones
Shouldn't be afraid
To live, love
While the flame is strong
For we may not be
The young ones very long
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