![]() ![]() Sayers fascination with the working-class lifestyle reaches its apogee with Moonlighting, a 1976 hit single that is both wholly international and irretrievably English. The title track, too, has a seedily downtrodden air, celebrating the passing of another year (75 is here) by wondering how the calendar can change when the singers life remains the same.Īnd the vaudeville air of The Old Dirt Road celebrates the tramps and hoboes of an earlier age, glorying in their freedom from the cares of conventional life and not caring a fig for poverty or dirt: gotta sixpence in my pocket, Im a millionaire. Indeed, later in the cycle, Streets of Your Town draws that latter parallel even closer, all but paraphrasing McTells original lyric to transplant the sorry story to Any City, U.K. ![]()
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