It's Not Easy (Alan Foster) For nearly sixty years I've been a folky Of pubs and beer and festivals I've seen plenty And one day I'll make my name And I'll find fortune and fame But I've nearly made it now and it's not easy. Well I learnt to play guitar when I was twenty And I started writing songs when I was thirty And I sang my songs one day But the audience faded away But I've nearly made it now and it's not easy. Pretty soon I'm gonna record a great new album Full of Aussie songs, it'll really be fair dinkum Then one day and it won't be long I'm gonna write the world's best song But I've nearly made it now and it's not easy. Teenagers today despise the folky Say compared to rock'n roll folk songs ain't funky They say your songs are much too long They exceed our attention span But I've nearly made it now and it's not easy. For nearly sixty years I've been a folky Of pubs and beer and festivals I've seen plenty And I'll sing my songs once more To an audience of four But I've nearly made it now and it's not easy. copyright Alan Foster AF oct99
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