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The Old Man Bloke

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Recorded live with "The SubTles"

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featuring, in addition to my Vocals & Rhythm Guitar,

Cliff Coates (right) on Bass & Vocals and Dirk Forsdyke (left) on Drums

  

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The SubTlesThe Old Man Bloke

  

   

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Lyrics

(Written with Cliff Coates)

© Halco Music/Project Freeman Music

(1991 Gregorian)

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I know a man

He is in charge

You must have met him too

He's just like you were

When you were older

  

He hides behind

The board report

He thinks you understand

What he was taught

When he was younger

  

Bridge

He should be taking it easy

(And feeding the hunger)

Of somebody keener

(Somebody younger)

He should be taking it easy

(And hanging his hat up)

Taking it easy

Making way for a young pup

  

Chorus

Because you can't teaxch an old dog new tricks

So dig up his garden and bury his bone

YOu can't teach an old dog new tricks

Old dogs, old dogs should lay down and die!

  

He's closed his mind

To new ideas

He never opens up

His greatest fear

Is somebody younger

  

He likes to think

He knows it all

And sticks to what he knows

And where he goes

His prejudice follows

  

Repeat Bridge & Chorus

  

Old dogs shgould lay down and...

Old dogs shgould lay down and...

Old dogs shgould lay down and die!

  

   

The Story of 'The Old Man Bloke'

The Old Man Bloke

A 'Haley/Coates' song inspired by the attitudes of my boss at the time (AK), who was very much a 'company man' in the old fashioned sense, i.e. he always did what his boss told him and never wanted to take any risks, challenge any decisions or do anything that might 'rock the boat'. So basically the opposite of me and my song writing partner, ha ha!

We saw him as an older guy very much stuck in his ways and in rather scathing terms thought that he should "lay down and die!", probably a bit harsh (wink). But it was our song so we could say what we liked, and take out our workday frustrations in verse

To be fair he did actually change a bit once we'd been working together a while and supported me on quite a few initiatives later on during our time together, but at the time this was written it was very much early days.

Maybe you can teach an old dog new tricks after all...

   

  

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© Halco Music/Project Freeman Music (1991 Gregorian)