In a message dated 9/10/2004 5:43:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
turn-of-the-century Gas lamps would be even better. And we could either give the UCD
Yellowjackets the job of lighting them in the evening and extinguishing them in
the morning. Or, preferably, we could hire new people. Either
way, we could teach them to sing "The Old Lamp Lighter" as they
went busily on their way in what every day is becoming more of
a historic simulacrum of the hoop-and-bustle era city all
communitarily-correct citizens cherish so dearly.
Always at your service and ready for a dialog,
Al Krigman ==============================================================
For those whose own historical heritages don't go back that far and who
therefore haven't a clue as to what I mean by all of this...
The Old Lamp Lighter
(by Charles Tobias & Nat Simon -- 1946, more than 50 years old, and
therefore eligible to be historically homologated in our fair city, so
don't try changing it [Ross, this means you] without the permission of the PHC
-- The Philadelphia Harmony Commission)
He made the night a little brighter
where ever he would go the old lamp-lighter of long, long ago His snowy hair was so much whiter beneath the candle glow the old lamp-lighter of long, long ago You'd hear the patter of his feet as he came toddling down the street his smile would hide a lonely heart you see If there were sweethearts in the park he'd pass a lamp and leave it dark remembering the days that used to be For he recalls when dreams were new he loved someone who loved him too who walks with him alone in memory He made the night a little brighter where ever he would go the old lamp-lighter of long, long ago Now if you look up in the sky you'll understand the reason why the little stars at night are all aglow He turns them on when night is here he turns them off when dawn is near the little man we loved of long ago |
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