Name: Raggle Taggle Man
Duration: P00H02M49S
Description: Alison and I (among others) ran a folk club in London (at Jacksons Lane Community Centre, Highgate) for a while, and later on lived in the same part of Tottenham for several years. It's only recently - when we haven't met face-to-face in decades and now live in different counties - that we've started to collaborate on songs, though.

Raggle Taggle Man

from The Old Man Laughs by David A. Harley

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Alison and I (among others) ran a folk club in London (at Jacksons Lane Community Centre, Highgate) for a while, and later on lived in the same part of Tottenham for several years. It's only recently - when we haven't met face-to-face in decades and now live in different counties - that we've started to collaborate on songs, though.

lyrics

He was a raggle taggle man
In raggle taggle clothes
Reaching, reaching for the stars
As he wandered down the road

Once the world was at his feet
But then it fell apart
His friends becoming strangers
Who left him in the dark

His world was all in pieces
That he couldn’t shape at last
While the wind was blowing
Through the weeds and grass

People tried to reassure him
But still he lost all hope
And looking at his life
He knew he couldn’t cope

So home alone he went alone
And all alone he died
But everyone who knew him
Now remembers him with pride
He was so beautiful inside.

Oh raggle taggle, raggle taggle, raggle taggle man
Oh raggle taggle, raggle taggle, raggle taggle man...

credits

from The Old Man Laughs, released February 7, 2022
Lyrics by Alison Pittaway, music by David A. Harley. Guitar, keyboard and vocal by David A. Harley

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David A. Harley England, UK

David Harley is a former professional musician, administrator, IT security editor, author and researcher, and former much else that is even less impressive. He now lives in Cornwall. More info at whealalice.com