iRide.2020.04.20 Countryside

"Say what you will / The countryside is still / The only place where I could settle down" are the opening three lines of Out of Town sung by Max Bygraves in the movie Charley Moon. In 1956 it was also a popular single recording in the UK, reaching #18 in the charts. I was jauntily singing those snatches of the lyrics that I remembered as I bicycled slowly around my route today. That is another wonderful thing about the countryside—there is nobody to criticize egregious vocal performances, even though I did scare some of the local fauna.

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