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

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

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 ?    

The Billy Bragg 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
...

The Paul Simon song starts:
>"I was 21 years when I wrote this song
> I'm 22 now but I won't be for long
> Time hurries on
.....


The key thing here is the first word of the third line.  Billy says "people"
and Paul says "Time".  Since the original quote (above) has the third line
starting with "People" I can only assume that she is talking about the Billy
Bragg song.

Michael

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