Yvonne Fitzner
Class of 1960

From The Beat Goes On
Segment Three: The Facets Of Life

A Song:
"When I was Young And Radical"
When I was young and radical I used to speak my mind
They called me a fanatic and I told them they were blind
But I'm older and I'm wiser since I've left those days behind

I just haven't got a thing to say, anything to say
No I haven't got a thing to say, anything to say

When I was young and radical I put the country down
And went in for dramatics as we tore it to the ground
But I don't go in for showmanship since I've settled down

I just sit and look the other way, look the other way
I just sit and look the other way, look the other way

I've got a couple mouths to feed, I have to pay the rent
I struggle with my daily needs, there's no time for dissent
And my only course of action is to write my president

But he hasn't got a thing to say, anything to say
No, he hasn't got a thing to say, anything to say

And so I spend my latter days aging in the park
Dreaming of the yesterdays that faded in the dark
And through a crowd of passersby a bullet found its mark

And as I lay there bleeding they just looked the other way
And as I lay there dying they just looked the other way

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Photoes of Daisy Aldan, from the collection of Lee Stewart, 1953

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