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Artist: Billy Bragg
Author: Billy Bragg
Label: Utility
Year: 1983
Opening lines literally taken from Simon & Garfunkel's Leaves That Are Green, a track from their Sounds Of Silence album ('66): "I was 21 years when I wrote this song, I'm 22 now but I won't be for long" while the melody was inspired by Thin Lizzy's Cowboy Song ('76) Billy admits.
Covers:
Kirsty MacColl [top 10 UK and in '91 with Billy Bragg for the BBC]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)