Old Friend
by John Stott & Geoff Edkins
© 1986

After escaping from an irate TV audience at Jupiter's favourite game show, "The Half Wit Show" Joe and his friends land on Saturn.  Joe meets two old codgers reminiscing.  They preferred to rely on fading memories than travel back to their halcyon days.

Verse 1
Old friend, do you remember, 
How things were, how things used to be? 
Old friend, do you remember, 
Watching cricket on the green?
But now they've closed all the factories down, 
The village green is now long gone. 
They came and took away our summer dreams, 
Old friend, you’re all that's left here with me.

Verse 2
Old friend, do you remember,
All the old friends that we used to know,
Old friend, do you remember,
Like fools we had to let them go?
These people came and they walked into our lives,
And then we let them slip away,
My mem'ry's fading, I can't remember their names,
Old friend, old friend please stay.

INSTRUMENTAL

Verse 3
Old friend, do you remember,
The times we shared when we were young,
Old friend, do you remember,
The songs we wrote but left unsung?
I love to take a walk down Memory Lane,
Rememb’ring how things used to be,
Now all that's left is just the mem’ries and you
Old friend, stay with me.
Now all that's left is just the mem’ries and you,
Old friend, please stay with me.
 
 

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