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Old Man Kensey

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Lyrics

Old Man Kensey wants to be a sign painter
First he’s got to learn to read
He’s gonna be a clown on TV.
Flags at his elbow, time to breath
(That’s my folly) I believe

Drink up the lake, Kensey’s away
(That’s my folly) That’s my mistake

Old Man Kensey wants to be a goalie
First he’s got to learn to count
He’s gonna be a clown on a circus mount
Letters to me signed in sopped up tar
(That’s my folly) Kensey’s going far

John, Bill and Ted, stand on your head
(That’s my folly) I’m ready to go

Old Man Kensey wants to be a dog catcher
First he’s got to learn to stand
He’s gonna be a clown in a marching band
Letters to me signed ransom greed
(That’s my folly) I believe

Drink up the lake, John, Bill and Ted,
(That’s my folly) That’s my mistake
Kensey’s away, stand on your head
(That’s my folly) I’m ready to go

Copyright © R.E.M./Athens Ltd.

No Official Releases named ‘Old Man Kensey’

Unofficial Releases (Bootlegs)

Unofficial Releases (Bootlegs)

OLD MAN KENSEY (Bootleg CD Album)
HM 004 CD

OLD MAN KENSEY (Bootleg CD Album)
JOK-017-A

‘OLD MAN KENSEY’ is also available on

Fables Of The Reconstruction (CD Album)
Netherlands – MAIN
released: unknown
Re-Issue

• 1. Feeling Gravitys Pull
• 2. Driver 8
• 3. Maps And Legends
• 4. Life And How To Live It
• 5. Can’t Get There From Here
• 6. Old Man Kensey
• 7. Green Green Grass Of Home
• 8. Kohoutek
• 9. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
• 10. Good Advices
• 11. Wendell Gee

Blue (Bootleg LP)
SPLIFF001
released: unknown

• 1. Moral Kiosk
• 2. Driver 8
• 3. Hyena
• 4. Camera
• 5. Pilgrimage
• 6. Talk About The Passion
• 7. Seven Chinese Bros.
• 8. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 9. Pretty Persuasion
• 10. Gardening At Night
• 11. 9-9
• 12. Windout
• 13. Old Man Kensey
• 14. Radio Free Europe
• 15. Little America
• 16. Burning Down
• 17. Pale Blue Eyes
• 18. 1,000,000
• 19. So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
• 20. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)

Can’t Get There From Here (Bootleg LP)
KAXY 002
released: unknown
Recorded: Live at Hammersmith Palais Ballroom, London 10/28/85.

• 1. Feeling Gravitys Pull
• 2. Harborcoat
• 3. Green Grow the Rushes
• 4. Maps And Legends
• 5. Pilgrimage
• 6. Driver 8
• 7. Sitting Still
• 8. Good Advices
• 9. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 10. Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
• 11. Can’t Get There From Here
• 12. Seven Chinese Bros.
• 13. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
• 14. Old Man Kensey
• 15. Pretty Persuasion
• 16. Life And How To Live It
• 17. Second Guessing
• 18. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 19. Toys In The Attic
• 20. Radar Love
• 21. Burning Hell
• 22. Talk About The Passion
• 23. Little America

First Trip Overthere (Bootleg LP)
?? | MC
released: unknown
Recorded: Dingwall\s London 1983.

• 1. Pretty Persuasion
• 2. Gardening At Night
• 3. 9-9
• 4. Windout
• 5. Old Man Kensey
• 6. Radio Free Europe
• 7. Little America
• 8. Burning Down
• 9. Pale Blue Eyes
• 10. 1,000,000
• 11. So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
• 12. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
• 13. Photograph

Boston 1984 (Bootleg CD Album)
MM 9116
released: unknown
Recorded 6/27/84, Seattle, WA

• 1. Moral Kiosk
• 2. Driver 8
• 3. Hyena
• 4. Camera
• 5. Pilgrimage
• 6. Talk About The Passion
• 7. Seven Chinese Bros.
• 8. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 9. Pretty Persuasion
• 10. Gardening At Night
• 11. 9-9
• 12. Windout
• 13. Old Man Kensey
• 14. Radio Free Europe
• 15. Little America
• 16. Burning Down
• 17. Pale Blue Eyes
• 18. 1,000,000
• 19. So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
• 20. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)

Buy The Sky, Sell The Sky (Bootleg CD Album)
DIRTY 13 VOL. 7
released: unknown

• 1. Gardening At Night
• 2. 9-9
• 3. Windout
• 4. Old Man Kensey
• 5. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
• 6. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 7. Talk About The Passion
• 8. Harborcoat
• 9. Hyena
• 10. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 11. Sitting Still
• 12. Driver 8
• 13. Catapult
• 14. Chicken Train
• 15. Pretty Persuasion
• 16. Little America
• 17. Ghost Riders In The Sky
• 18. Radio Free Europe
• 19. Femme Fatale

Dynamic Live (Bootleg CD Album)

released: unknown
Recorded 1987 and Oslo 12/6/84

• 1. Finest Worksong
• 2. These Days
• 3. Lightnin’ Hopkins
• 4. Welcome To The Occupation
• 5. Driver 8
• 6. Feeling Gravitys Pull
• 7. I Believe
• 8. The One I Love
• 9. Exhuming McCarthy
• 10. Wolves, Lower
• 11. Fall On Me
• 12. Superman
• 13. Just A Touch
• 14. Oddfellows Local 151
• 15. Little America
• 16. Hyena
• 17. Driver 8
• 18. Old Man Kensey
• 19. Pretty Persuasion
• 20. 1,000,000

In The Wood (Bootleg CD Album)
BGS004
released: unknown
Recorded: 11/21/84 Rock City, Nottingham, UK

• 1. Hyena
• 2. Talk About The Passion
• 3. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 4. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
• 5. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 6. Sitting Still
• 7. Old Man Kensey
• 8. Gardening At Night
• 9. 9-9
• 10. Windout
• 11. Driver 8
• 12. Pretty Persuasion
• 13. Radio Free Europe

Live At Yokohama (Bootleg CD Album)
BZCD 009
released: unknown
Recorded: 11/10/84 Yokohama University

• 1. Gardening At Night
• 2. 9-9
• 3. Old Man Kensey
• 4. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 5. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
• 6. Talk About The Passion
• 7. Harborcoat
• 8. Hyena
• 9. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 10. Sitting Still
• 11. Catapult
• 12. Chicken Train
• 13. Pretty Persuasion
• 14. Little America
• 15. Ghost Riders In The Sky
• 16. Second Guessing
• 17. Radio Free Europe
• 18. Femme Fatale

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