Australian singles chart:
Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine entered the Kent charts on 7 May 1973 and peaked at #20.
Album:
The song is on The Storyteller which entered the Kent album charts on 4 June 1973 and peaked at #26.
Songwriter:
Tom T. Hall
Producer:
Jerry Kennedy
Record label of Australian release:
Mercury
Wikipedia:
Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine was written and recorded by American country music artist Tom T. Hall and is a true account of his experience at the 1972 Democratic National Convention, where he had a conversation with an old janitor at a Miami Beach hotel. The janitor appraises his own life by concluding that the only worthwhile things are the three listed in the song’s title.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Dogs,_Children_and_Watermelon_Wine
Lyrics:
“How old do you think I am? ” he said.
I said, well, I didn’t know.
He said, “I turned 65 about 11 months ago.”
I was sittin’ in Miami pourin’ blended whiskey down
When this old gray black gentleman was cleanin’ up the lounge
There wasn’t anyone around ‘cept this old man and me
The guy who ran the bar was watchin’ Ironside on TV
Uninvited, he sat down and opened up his mind
On old dogs and children and watermelon wine
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