Kern–SB, Ol Man, William warfield, 1952 with quotes

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Our final version is the video clip of William Warfield singing the song from the 1952 MGM remake of Show Boat. We have saved this version to the end because we wanted to repeat to you many of the comments that appear in the youtube post.

Marc Nicholson wrote ” ‘I’m tired of living and scared of dying.’ Did any lyrical writer ever match Oscar Hammerstein for insight and humanity? I doubt it.”

Thomas De Quincy wrote “The line, ‘I’m tired of living, and scared of dying,’ haunts me.”

Conrad Smith wrote ” ‘I get weary/ I’m sick of trying/ I’m tired of living/ And scared of dying But old man RIver/ He just keeps roliing/ Along….’ These lines just prevented me from committing suicide months ago.”

Willie Williams wrote “I love this song. It really speaks to the heart of people who looked like me, who built this country through the toil and pain of slavery. We truly are standing on the shoulders of giants. It make me proud to be a black man in America. WOW!”

A fourth person wrote this under a pseudonym ” ‘I’m tired of livin’, and scared of dyin’ . . . ‘ Rarely have I heard a lyric that captured the sadness of life better.”