On Green Grass

[H2O Man]

40. It's funny .....

When I was young, the old men said that Jack Dempsey was the greatest heavyweight champion ever. He would have kicked the stuffing out of any of the ones that followed. Then guys of my father's generation said the same thing about Joe Louis. Of cours, I was equally certain that Muhammad Ali was, to quote him, "the Greatest."

I still have the brash young contender Cassius Clay's LP "I am the Greatest. One of my brothers played it whenever my uncles were visiting my father to annoy them. Soon there would be other albums they thought were a fad, soon to evaporate, by a group called The Beatles. The older folks were certain that their music was all timeless classics.

I recognize that I am, in a sense, stuck in the era in which I came of age. But we sure as heck had great music. And my brother tells me that even if a heavyweight champion in the future might have beat Ali had they fought, we will indignately deny it!

Thank you!