Tom Paxton: Last thing on my mind

[9duryea9]

I'm born in 1948. Married to my wife, LHM, the mother of our children: My kids were raised with Paxton music in their ears and this was reinforced during our family conversations, concerns and considerations.

Guthrie, Seeger, Dylan, Baez, Ochs and Paxton...this family's philosophical underpinnings. All the long reminding us that we are that 99% taken and fleeced since the VN War.

[badmoonryzn]

Heavens, he has to be in his seventies by now. I remember first hearing him in the mid sixties. His music is fun and has meanings for most of us. I hope I can do as well when I reach his age.

[debbiedamoose]

How can anyone not like Tom Paxton?

[beebscooke]

@debbiedamoose

i love our Tom so much! got my mum's records and have arranged his best for my young girlie choir of 8 voices. we even won an award!!! am still looking for a video of My Lady's a Wild Flyin' Dove though!

keep enjoying the music!

becca

[toobyu2859]

Soft-voiced singers usually hold up better than the other kind.

[PoorNelly]

In regards to how he looks and sounds( and whether he is up to doing an encore) - the fact is that not all of us (or you) will pass down through the years unscathed by time. He looks like he's taken some wear and tear ..but if you think that's bad, you should see me! :-)

[killiekentman]

they dont make music like this today, a true classic. makes me old as i remember the first time i heard Tom sing this. thanks for posting.

[melners]

I was at one of his concerts in Halifax the 80's. At the end of the show, he pointedly said that we'd all had a wonderful time, and it was time to go home, meaning he had no intention of doing any encores. Rather ungracious.

[melners]

Sorry, that was my Dad's comment, not mine. (He forgot to sign out of my account.) I wasn't even alive in the 80's.

[Davenportdave52]

Over 45 years on Tom is still performing his iconic song as well as the year he wrote it.. It still moves me and I will never tire of listening to it, however old he is.

PS for 8BILL. Listen to Tom's version of this song from 1966 (available on youtube). Then explain your rather unusual comment. Do you actually know what he IS singing about?

[8BILLL]

last thing on this guy's mind was a bottle of whiskey

[sidensvans54]

Fantastic..

Thank you so much

[bonnieisbest]

this is a great song. he sings it as good now as he did many years ago.

[steamboatsblues]

I first heard this song forty-some years ago. Ever since, it has played through my thoughts weekly, sometimes daily. What a gift, to write songs that have such staying power!

[sciencebabe]

I haven't heard from Tom Paxton for decades. I have vivid childhood memories of his beautiful music.

I'm so impressed at how beautiful his voice still is.

[NEON271156]

what will you say about the meanings of this song once "you" have aged ... now i am aged i say to you give your mum a big hug before she leaves.

[zuccametallo]

Grandissimo!!! un vero artista!!

[leemayh]

I would like to know what Paxton would say about the meanings of his songs now that he has aged.

[Fronika]

Time is cruel.

[garzaeduardo]

wow.i am mexican and his music touches my heart.i would swim rivers and trek lands and work hard to remain there.and keep it america.

[rockyracune]

Tom is a long-time liberal. But this Reagan Republican has always enjoyed his music!

[SinoYank]

I know how you feel. I'm a Democrat, but I've always loved watching Gopher on the Love Boat and Charlton Heston and Reagan himself struggling to out-act chimpanzees.

[marlanmcdonald]

Thank you.

[onitram1]

Thanks for the post!

Tom is always approachable at his gigs, nice guy.

By the way, the title is actually "The Last Thing On My Mind"

[cjwaywell]

Thanks for the on screne lyrics that's cool

[muse3135]

What a beautiful man. Thank you for this video.

[saffsgrandad]

Had the honour and pleasure of meeting Tom in 2005. What a gentleman in both senses of the word. A great songwriter and entertainer.

[OneBigRetard]

I know the first sense. What is the second?

[saffsgrandad]

The first meaning is, as you say, obvious, to get the second meaning you just sepparate the words "Gentle" and "man"

[OneBigRetard]

My point being both meanings are the same.

[saffsgrandad]

I'll grant you that the difference is subtle, but to my mind it exists. I suppose it is hard to be a gentlemen without being a gentle man, but I don't believe the reverse is always true.

[OneBigRetard]

I might have been being inappropriately argumentative. But the concept of a 'gentleman' is a man with gentle manners.

It kind of means exactly what it says. I know the point you were making however and as such I will now shut my oversized trap.

Great track.

[1fatbadger]

Thank you for this post. Tom Paxton has been one of the greatest for a long time now.

[bs5750]

Just a very special person.

[marshacrossen]

This song always makes me cry. Thank you Tom

[gilknutson]

Tom Paxton has been one of my top 3 song writers for over 40 years. It is wonderful that his is still singing! This is a true Tom Paxton classic. Thanks so much for sharing!!! I hope I can sound as good at his age!

[macdonnnn]

hey !! tam top notch then and top notch now , i remenber as if it was tomorrow , i will listen again tomorrow. paxton takin us to the zoo then. . . . . . thanks tom

[hbdavew]

The Move did a great version of this song on the Shazam album.

[beverleyplaya]

Heard you sing this song in the UK in the 60's Tom, it is as good today as it was then,

many thanks, we sing this song still in the car on long journeys, again many thanks.

[vilniusvilnius]

a very special song thank you

[AkaraSorin]

Thank you for posting> love this song and singing it to.

[hmvku]

Thank you who recorded this very special singer for me. It remains an extraordinary song. Moving. Also the singing along.

Henk van Kuijk, Netherlands