[Dixielandjazz] Retirement Home Gig

[Gluetje1 at aol.com]

Pat, you are quoting lyrics from a great tune, entitled, "Old Bones".   The 
neatest experience I have had with that one was to start playing it one  
Friday afternoon at a nursing home Happy Hour.  (Nice place with an actual  
bar.)  Anyhow a whole group of ladies got all excited saying they were  using 
that tune in their line dancing class.  So we got them up  front and dancing 
for the room.  This was a tune very much associated  with the late George 
Burns: <_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh6saG57kPE_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh6saG57kPE) >
 
Ginny      
 
 
In a message dated 9/15/2009 6:47:11 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
pj.ladd at btinternet.com writes:

And that  is why, oh why, I am so melancholy.
I got those mean old Melancholy  Blues.

A great tune to improvise on and means so much to the Nursing  Home crowd.>>

Oh great!

Just the thing to cheer up the  poor old sods.  What about that song the 
title of which I have  forgotten which goes

Yes! I`d do it again
Though I may not amount to  more than I`ve ever been
Give me the chance to turn back the clock
And  let my life begin
Oh Yeah! I`d do it again.

At least it gives the  idea that things were good once, not just sitting on 
your backside  thinking how bloody awful everything is

>From an old `un (not in a  nursing home  yet)

Pat