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Recorded live with "The SubTles"
featuring, in addition to my Vocals & Rhythm Guitar,
Cliff Coates (right) on Bass & Vocals and Dirk Forsdyke (left) on Drums
Also available on The SubTles Soundcloud
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(Chords and Lyrics)
(Written with Cliff Coates)
© Halco Music/Project Freeman Music
(1991 Gregorian)
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!
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)