Lennon-McCartney (Northern Songs)
Those two writers ask “All the lonely people where do they all come from…
all the lonely people where do they all belong?
This question I will attempt to answer…
Eleanor Rigby was not always a lonely person….
In 1914 she was a young married woman with a husband and a baby….
she had parents,brothers and sisters.
Her husband went off to fight in the First World War … sadly like many men
who went off to fight…he came back with poor health..very likely gassed
on the western front.
After the war she gave birth to another son…but her husband died just ten
years after the war ended.
Her parents died…her brother killed in the war…her other brothers and sisters
emmigrating for a better life.
Her two sons were killed in World War Two….
After the war the demolition of much of the old inner city,completed what
was started by the war time bombing.
Friends moved away and died…until by the 1960s there were few people
living in the old suburb.
Father McKenzie was a good honest faithful priest…having served the parish
for many years.
The parishioners who moved out to the new suburbs keep the church going by
having family weddings there…that is why she is picking up the rice…she
is the only one well enough to help the priest,all the other elderly parishioners
are in hospitals and care homes.
She puts on make up for the weddings…that is what the jar by the door is for.
Yes she Lives in a dream…thinking back to happier times.
Well of course nobody comes near…that I have already told you.
The sermon he is writing is for the people in the care homes and hospitals
he visits … taking church to them.
GT
Darning his socks ….a man used to poverty…proof that he is indeed an
honest priest,when so many want to lead a church to enrich themselves.
What does he care they ask…well of course he does he is a faithful priest.
Finally Eleanor Rigby died …and of course nobody came because all her
family and friends were dead,and she was the last one.
Father McKenzie walking from the grave wiping the dirt off ….no one was
saved sounds very bleak…very bleak.
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