![]() ^ Flavour of New Zealand, 24 February 1966.^ "8th Annual GRAMMY Awards|1965 GRAMMYs|".Home Free covered the song in May 2020 to pay tribute to Harold Reid, who had passed away earlier that year in April.It is the theme song of the radio series Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting. ![]() An instrumental version of the song was used in the New Zealand TV programme A Dog's Show.Jean Shepard covered the song for her 1975 album Jean Shepard and the Second Fiddles.Nancy Sinatra covered the song for her album Boots.The line in the chorus "smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo" is changed to be about other activities. In a video by The Muppets, a band of rats, The Ratler Brothers, sing the song while Beaker struggles with insomnia after being the subject of an experiment that involved consuming a large amount of coffee.It is a poem about the end of a man's usefulness", he adds. Kurt Vonnegut quotes the song's complete lyrics in his 1981 book Palm Sunday, calling the song "yet another great contemporary poem by the Statler Brothers" and using it to describe "the present condition" of an American man who had recently departed his family. ![]()
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