Name: Goodbye, Old Man
Duration: P00H03M18S
Description: Written on the day the beloved Old Man of the Mountain fell, May 3, 2003.

Goodbye, Old Man

from My Mountain by Fred Marple

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Written on the day the beloved Old Man of the Mountain fell, May 3, 2003.

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Goodbye, Old Man

Goodbye, Old Man. Goodbye, old friend.
You may be gone, but your spirit lives on in this rocky land.
Goodbye, Old Man.

That solemn brow, that craggy face,
as tough as the people from so long ago who settled this place.
As old as the hills, as old as the land,
a primeval profile in granite not carved by human hands.
Goodbye, Old Man.

Like a great grandfather watching down on us all,
we never thought that you would ever fall.
It’s like a death in the family, it’s hard to believe.
There’s an empty place where you used to be.

It was a long, hard winter, and now I know
how you must have felt after all those years of ice and snow.
You must have been tired, and maybe you knew
that when it’s your time to go there’s not much that you can do.
So you slipped away in the dead of night
and in the morning we saw, but couldn’t believe our eyes.
Goodbye, Old Man. Goodbye, old friend.
You may be gone, but your spirit lives on in this rocky land.
Goodbye, Old Man.
Goodbye, Old Man.
Goodbye, Old Man.
Goodbye, old friend.

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from My Mountain, released May 17, 2021

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Fred Marple New Hampshire

Yankee humorist Fred Marple has appeared on radio, TV (NH Chronicle) and in the pages of Yankee Magazine, New Hampshire Magazine, and many others. He is the author of “Welcome to Frost Heaves,” a collection of stories from the most under-appreciated town in New Hampshire. Fred’s video spoof “Yoga for Yankees” has been viewed over 6 million times on-line. ... more

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