The Streets Of London Ralph McTell REACTION 

When I was a kid this used to make me cry. Still does.

Most beautiful and the saddest song I’ve ever heard. Nobody has ever covered this with any class or dignity. Great singer/songwriter from NZ

I really love this song. I heard it the first time as a kid in the 80’s. I haven’t heard this version before though. I’ve heard it with Roger Whittaker

It would take a very hard person to not be moved by that song

This song is so good!

1969 it was written......2023 nothing has changed in our cities......

In the 1970s in Britain, if someone told you that in the 2020s people would be using foodbanks and living in what is called energy poverty they would have laughed.

Ralph's written so many wonderful songs, it would be great if you reacted to some of his less well-known ones (I appreciate Streets isn't well known in the US). For others commenting on social issues, you could try Peppers and Tomatoes, Stranger to the Seasons, Birman or Water of Dreams; but lots of other great songs with different themes. His recent West 4th Street and Jones is an instant classic.

They used to play this song in my old primary school back in the 1970s. I heard other schools did the same.

:) Memories of my father and me on a Honda GoldWing riding beautiful country roads. You remind me of him :)

ANZAC Day. Soldiers on the street. Not accessible for our armed forces to be there.

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