The 1945 song "Look on Yonder Wall" includes the line "Look on yonder wall, hand me down my walkin' cane".
"Please Don't Bury Me", on John Prine's 1973 album Sweet Revenge, has the line "Hand me down my walking cane / It's a sin to tell a lie", which also references the 1936 song "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie"
The opening line of the 1976 song "The Rubberband Man" from the album Happiness Is Being with the Spinners is "Hand me down my walking cane / Hand me down my hat" (lyrics Linda Creed, music Thom Bell).
The 1985 Dire Straits song "Walk of Life" includes the lyric "Here comes Johnny, gonna tell you the story / Hand me down my walkin' shoes".
The 2002 Guy Clark song "Soldier’s Joy, 1864" includes the lyric "Hand me down my walking cane / I ain’t cut out for war".
Bob Dylan sings the line "Hand Me Down My Walking Cane" in his song "Ain't Talkin'" on his 2006 album Modern Times.
Callahan's album is really wonderful. That, Iron & Wine and Bonnie Prince Billy have made this the year of Ruminative Middle Age Music.
I'll have to give a listen to them - they've slipped past me this year.
I haven't listened to that Bill Callahan album (though with the recommendations from you and Em as in Music I should) but the quoted lyric sounds like an allusion to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_Me_Down_My_Walking_Cane
I wouldn't doubt that. It also reminded me of Hoagy Carmichael's 'Rockin' Chair': "Old rockin' chair's got me, my cane by my side."
It also reminded me of Walk of Life, you know because it alludes to those old songs.
"Walk Of Life" is mentioned in that wikipedia entry. (I don't know how they were selected but it's an interesting list of "references in other songs")
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The 1945 song "Look on Yonder Wall" includes the line "Look on yonder wall, hand me down my walkin' cane".
"Please Don't Bury Me", on John Prine's 1973 album Sweet Revenge, has the line "Hand me down my walking cane / It's a sin to tell a lie", which also references the 1936 song "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie"
The opening line of the 1976 song "The Rubberband Man" from the album Happiness Is Being with the Spinners is "Hand me down my walking cane / Hand me down my hat" (lyrics Linda Creed, music Thom Bell).
The 1985 Dire Straits song "Walk of Life" includes the lyric "Here comes Johnny, gonna tell you the story / Hand me down my walkin' shoes".
The 2002 Guy Clark song "Soldier’s Joy, 1864" includes the lyric "Hand me down my walking cane / I ain’t cut out for war".
Bob Dylan sings the line "Hand Me Down My Walking Cane" in his song "Ain't Talkin'" on his 2006 album Modern Times.
Thanks, Nick, for all this important context and sharing it here.
I really liked what if. Beautiful version of clair de lune.
Oh, awesome! Glad you liked it!
Thanks for these, a wonderfully diverse palette.
Thank you, Andres!