The Old Lamp-Lighter
The Old Lamp-Lighter (external link - mp3)
by Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra
For some reason I became obsessed with this song, “The Old Lamp-Lighter,” a couple of years ago while listening to a 1920-50s singers & standards station on iTunes radio. Well, the station has since vanished, but the song marches on. I have no idea why in the world the little nugget bounced back into my brain the other week, but for a couple of days I couldn’t stop singing it over and over (much to the frustration of my girlfriend, Robin, as we were on vacation in Old Wilmington.)
So I’ve decided to incorporate it into something that makes a little more sense (as much as anything makes sense in my imaginary world,) and use it as a set-off point for a chore of New Achillian’s night-shift patrol (General Gestalt and MekaØscar) to perform. Seems to me, the two people who have to man the graveyard shift’s first duty is to go around the populated areas of town and light all of the lanterns so that everything’s not completely dark.
Then they can get back to sitting by the alarm bell waiting for something to happen in the quiet, sleepy ruined-metropolis of New Achillia.
