A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

  SONG (for Veterans) The Nursing Home Song (The Longest Day” Paul Anka)   By Alex Diaz-Granados   Juan Carlos Hernandez       Many folks came to retire Many folks came for the tea. Many folks have indigestion From the dinner they serve at three.     Many folks are bored already   Many folks are getting rude. Many folks want this to end now Or they’ll start to Bingo in the nude. The longest days, the longest days   In Nursing Homes, the longest days Full of woes and full of masks Full of coughs and now with hacks.     Many folks they blame the Donald Many folks blame the Chinese Many folks praise Dr. Fauci In the longest days in history.     The longest days, the longest days In Nursing Homes, the longest days. Applesauce and Cottage cheese And all the Gelatin you’ll ever see.     Many folks want to see family Many folks need to be seen Nursing Homes need more attention In the longest days in history.  

© 1989 Rhino Records Inc.  On October 26, 1989, Los Angeles-based Rhino Records published Paul Anka - 30th Anniversary Collection: His All-Time Greatest Hits, a one-CD compilation album featuring 24 of Canadian singer-songwriter-actor Paul Anka's best-known and best-loved hits. Known throughout the world for songs such as Diana, Lonely Boy, Put Your Head On My Shoulder, and (You're) Having My Baby, Anka is also the musician who took a French-language song by Claude François and Jacques Revaux and transformed it into Frank Sinatra's signature song My Way.  Paul Albert Anka was born on July 30, 1941 into an Antiochian Orthodox Christian of Syrian and Lebanese ancestry in Ottawa, the capital of Canada. His talent for music emerged early during his childhood, and when he was a grade school student, Paul sang in the choir of Ottawa's St. Elias Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral, where he also studied music theory with Frederic Karam, the choir's director. When Paul