Pack Up Your Sorrows

[struggle4progress]

[loli phabay]

1. in your old kitbag?

[struggle4progress]

2. that was a 1915 WWI song, this is from the early 60s

[rug]

3. She sounds just like her sister.

[struggle4progress]

4. She does. I think the first version of this I ever heard was Richard alone -- somewhat less polished

but I couldn't find it on youtube

[HarveyDarkey]

5. I like this version

[olddots]

6. Richard wrote one of my favorite books

Been down so long it seems like up to me 1966 read it if you can find it = amazing book.

[HarveyDarkey]

7. Still have the book, one of my favorites

Gnossos rules

[struggle4progress]

8. Thanks! I've really been meaning to read that book for almost 40 years now!

I distinctly remember a good friend telling me long ago what a great read it was -- but that got filed into the jumbled chaos of my mind

I'd forgotten Farina wrote it but I see it's in my local library! I'll go pick it up

[HarveyDarkey]

9. He died after the celebration for the book being published

Thomas Pynchon's memories of him: http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/farina.html

[panader0]

10. I used to have the album

Mimi is Joan Baez' sister isn't she?

[struggle4progress]

11. She was. She's been dead over ten years now