Other websites credit Ray Stevens as the writer. The story started in a newspaper article written some 150 years before hand.

Goodness ca04 what a complicated song, a bit hard for my poor brain to follow.  🙂

Just found this thread and I think I definitely qualify as I was born on the 31.1.1938 and my husband born on the 29.9.1930.  We had a retail craft shop until we retired to home in 1960 and I still teach art 5 classes a week and he makes wooden items and does framing for my students.  He has recently had to undergo chemo for skin cancers but still works for me and the only other medical problem that we have in high blood pressure.

Hi Gwen...you certainly qualify.....and are the oldest I think...you beat me by8 months!

I've just taken up art classes again...finding it very enjoyable.

Hi Gwen...you certainly qualify.....and are the oldest I think...you beat me by8 months! I've just taken up art classes again...finding it very enjoyable.

Where are you doing your classes - might know the teacher and also what sort of art are you doing.

I'm in Qld.   In Landsborough.

experimenting with acrylics at the moment, but I think I'm using them like oils unfortunately...guess it's my individual style tho.

Arvo Seniors.

Gilly-dont try and do a mural on the ceiling-

stay off ladders!..................Richo. 

will leave that to Michaelangelo and Leonardo Richo:^O

Hi ya Gwen and welcome 🙂  Yes I reckon you are the eldest so far... great!  I'm hoping we will get someone of 80 sometime, but we might have to wait until one of us turns 80... you so far :^O

Gilli don't you DARE get on a ladder... Ooooh I would be so angry with you... one broken pelvis is enough for the year :^O

I'm my own grandpa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7x1ETPkZsk

Oh you gotta give it to relationships... they can get very confusing :^O

Hey!  does anyone remember when you could wind out the windscreen of a car?

I was watching Foyle's War today and he was driving an Austin and it had a wind out front window... that put me in mind of my being able to wind our window on our Austin...

Does anyone remember, How Much is the Doggy in the Window?

My mother use to sing that to me all the time.

Yes but I can remember further back that that.  During the war we had a record player on our back verandah it was a wind up one and we had 78 records that we used to play I got the job of winding the handle whilst my sisters danced with their boyfriends. We also used to go to the movies on a Friday night and they were silent.