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Originally Posted by ribbons
Robby Benson. Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Never saw Ode To Billie Joe (great song though) but I remember seeing him in Ice Castles.
This one tells a story too, I think. Van Morrison's Madame George.
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Madam George is one of my absolute favourites of Van Morrison, ribbons! Good choice.
I had not heard The Band song,
King Harvest, before, but that sad depiction of rural hardship put me in mind of an industrial equivalent set on the other side of the Atlantic; Ewan Maccoll's
My Old Man:
I think the words are so clear, I'm not putting the lyrics, but would like to mention that "the cyclops" was the nickname of a blast furnace or some such, with its one burning red eye:
Is "gave him his cards" generally understood? = returned his National Insurance card, with its green stamps showing his weekly payments into the government health&benefits scheme:-
