What amazes me is that one of the greatest "pastoral" pop songs has no comment>It remains a classic from 1967, a distillation of a time about to disappear and a time worth saving...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNgo07Cg7lI
In his 1995 autobiography X-Ray and in subsequent performances of his Storyteller effort, Davies described the song as being inspired by a local hunch-backed gardener in his native Muswell Hill neighbourhood of North London.
sblake, I watched the video twice. It was so good to see The Kinks again in their prime.
I smile when I hear these lyrics. Roast beef on Sunday was our big dinner too. I do wonder how many families still sit down to a big Sunday dinner together.
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What amazes me is that one of the greatest "pastoral" pop songs has no comment>It remains a classic from 1967, a distillation of a time about to disappear and a time worth saving...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNgo07Cg7lI
In his 1995 autobiography X-Ray and in subsequent performances of his Storyteller effort, Davies described the song as being inspired by a local hunch-backed gardener in his native Muswell Hill neighbourhood of North London.
sblake,
I watched the video twice. It was so good to see The Kinks again in their prime.
I smile when I hear these lyrics. Roast beef on Sunday was our big dinner too. I do wonder how many families still sit down to a big Sunday dinner together.
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