Daddy’s Tune

Daddy what was I supposed to do?
I don’t know why it was so hard to
talk to you.
I guess my anger pulled me through
But Daddy I want to let you
know somehow,
the things you said are so
much clearer now.
And I would turn the pages back,
but time will not allow.
The way these days just
rip along,
too fast to last, too vast, too strong.
MAKE ROOM FOR MY FORTY-FIVES
ALONG BESIDE YOUR SEVENTY-EIGHTS.

These words are taken from “Daddy’s Tune,” by Jackson Browne, a contemporary songwriter who is listened to and respected by millions of young people. (In case some of you do not know, a “forty-five” is a small, unbreakable type record with a large hole, otherwise referred to as a “single” by today’s young people. “Seventy-eights” are those nine-inch breakable records on which the popular music of the thirties and forties…