I was a post-war baby in a small Scots townI was three years old when we moved down southHard times written in my mother's looksWith her widow's pension and her ration booksAneurin Bevan took the miners' causeTo the House of Commons in his coal dust voiceWe were locked up safe and warm from the snowWith 'Life With The Lyons' on the radioAnd Churchill said to Louis MountbattenI just can't stand to see you todayHow could you have gone and given India away?Mountbatten just frowned, said, What can I say?â€â€½Some of these things slip through your handsAnd there's no good talking or making plansBut Churchill, he just flapped his wingsSaid, I don't really care to discuss these thingsâ€But, oh, every time I look at youI feel so low, I don't know what to doWell, every day just seems to bring bad newsLeaves me here with the post World War Two blues1959 was a very strange timeA bad year for labor and a good year for wineUncle Ike was our American palAnd nobody talked about the Suez CanalI can still remember the last time I criedThe day that Buddy Holly diedI never met him, so it may seem strangeDon't some people just affect you that wayAnd all in all it was goodThere even seemed to be in an optimistic moodWhile TW3 sat and laughed at it allTill some began to see the cracks in the wallsAnd one day Macmillan was coming downstairsA voice in the dark caught him unawaresIt was Christine Keeler blowing him a kissHe said, I never believed it could happen like thisâ€But oh, every time I look at youI feel so low I don't know what to doWell, every day just seems to bring bad newsLeaves me here with the post World War Two bluesI came up to London when I was nineteenWith a corduroy jacket and a head full of dreamsIn coffee bars, I spent my nightsReading Allen Ginsberg, talking civil rightsThe day Robert Kennedy got shot downThe world was wearing a deeper frownAnd though I knew that we'd lost a friendI always believed we could win in the end'Cause music was the sceneryJimi Hendrix played loud and freeSergeant Pepper was real to meSongs and poems were all you neededWhich way did the sixties go?Now Ramona's in 'Desolation Row'And where I'm going, I hardly knowIt surely wasn't like this beforeBut oh, every time I look aroundI feel so low my head seems undergroundWell, every day just seems to bring bad newsLeaves me here with the post World War Two bluesOh, every time I look at youI feel so low I don't know what to doWell, every day just seems to bring bad newsLeaves me here with the post World War Two blues
Lyrics by Al Stewart
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