At The End Of The Year (The Friend's Reply)
Multi-genre singer/songwriter, previously with The Mediocres (Chicago, IL), Swimmer Monkey (Silicon Valley, CA), and currently "Clot 1" of The Garden Clots.
Story behind the song
Created from a public domain recording of an anonymous poem, read by a woman named Sonia. Music by me.
Lyrics
I thought your lines a great success,
(You always did write rather neatly)
Although I must at once confess
I can’t agree with you completely.
Of course I recollect quite well
How long we sat and smoked together,
And how our conversation fell
(As fall it will) upon the weather
Our prospects then seemed bright and fair,
(Our language certainly got stronger)
We built our castles in the air,
And by degrees our drinks grew longer.
Yes in the game of law BEN wins,
And many guineas in he’s picking,
But have you heard his wife has twins,
And both of them alive and kicking?
...
And mazy JACK whose chance in life,
We all of us considered shady,
Has married money (and a wife);
But tell me do you know the lady?
DICK’s dinners, too, I’m quite aware,
Are noted yet he’s far from steady,
Whilst TOM’s fine house in Belgrave Square
Is mortgaged, so they say, already.
Life, after all, is surely more
Than guineas, Belgrave Square, or dinners.
Life is a race but yet, before
You curse your luck, are these the winners?
