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"The Ballad of the Sad Young Men" by Fran Landesman

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southendmd:
Here's a spare, breathy version by Fiona McBain, with just a bass:


[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j6Jo_zQ25Y[/youtube]

southendmd:
Just to compare, here is "Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most", by the same songwriters (curiously, it was cut from the play), with a 19-year old Barbra Streisand:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAS8BDDV8uM[/youtube]

And a few years later, at 67:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l0EQ3Uzzb0[/youtube]

southendmd:
My all-time favorite is Ella's version, one of her best:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd5VVELfWC8[/youtube]

And the lyrics:

Once I was a sentimental thing
 Threw my heart away each spring
 Now a spring romance hasn't got a chance
 Promised my first dance to winter
 All I've got to show's a splinter for my little fling

Spring this year has got me feeling
 Like a horse that never left the post
 I lie in my room staring up at the ceiling
 Spring can really hang you up the most

Morning's kiss wakes trees and flowers
 And to them I'd like to drink a toast
 I walk in the park just to kill lonely hours
 Spring can really hang you up the most

All afternoon those birds twitter twit
 I know the tune, "This is love, this is it"
 Heard it before and I know the score
 And I've decided that spring is a bore

Love seemed sure around the New Year
 Now it's April, love is just a ghost
 Spring arrived on time, only what became of you, dear?
 Spring can really hang you up the most
 Spring can really hang you up the most

Spring is here, there's no mistaking
 Robins building nests from coast to coast
 My heart tries to sing so they won't hear it breaking
 Spring can really hang you up the most

College boys are writing sonnets
 In the tender passion they're engrossed
 But I'm on the shelf with last years Easter bonnets
 Spring can really hang you up the most

Love came my way, I hope it would last
 We had our day, now that's all in the past
 Spring came along a season of song
 Full of sweet promise but something went wrong

Doctors once prescribed a tonic
 "Sulphur and molasses" was the dose
 Didn't help a bit, my condition must be chronic
 Spring can really hang you up the most

All alone, the party's over
 Old man winter was a gracious host
 But when you keep praying for snow to hide the clover
 Spring can really hang you up the most

southendmd:
Gotta give equal time to Sassy:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enoPgQwy11U[/youtube]

southendmd:
Back to the sad young men.  This time with the great South African Miriam Makeba from 1967:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_RdfM3tlR8[/youtube]

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