Paul Simon...NOT!! (Was Kirsty MacColl...NOT!!)

[kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman)]

In article <66898@apple.Apple.COM> aurs01!mcnc.org!whitcomb%aurgate@mcnc.org writes:
>anarchyoutopia <ukevc@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu> writes:
>>Does K mC's song start "I was twentyone years when i wrote this song,
>>and I'm 22 now but I won't be for long. people.... " etc ?    

>This is an old Paul Simon song, titled "Leaves that are Green", or
>something similar.


Actually, this is from an old Billy Bragg song called "A New England".
The song starts:

I was twentyone years when i wrote this song,
I'm 22 now but I won't be for long
People ask me when will you grow up to be a man
But all the girls I loved at school
are already pushing prams.

Michael



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