Sunday 15th September 2024.
I have finally found the song of a TV series
I loved so much - both the series and its song: the music was stuck in my head for decades, with the chorus' only word ("Tomorrow") I could understand at that time, when I was small, precocious child with a very early interest for English in a family where nobody had studied it.
In Italy, this TV series was called "Gypsy" and it was my very favourite one because it starred a stray dog, a German Shepherd, always wandering and meeting new friends in every town, but never stopping and settling down anywhere.
"Gypsy" (whose real name was "London", as the credits said, but I had forgot it, after so many time) stayed for a while and helped his new friends, but when their problem was fixed he moved on, towards new adventures in unknown places.
When I was a little girl, I dreamt that I wandered with Gypsy and, somehow, in my adult life, I feel as I don't have a home anymore.
I am so happy I have found this song and the TV series on YouTube, and I can sing it now with the lyrics.
"Maybe tomorrow I will settle down,
Until tomorrow I will keep moving on".
Music theme of The Littlest Hobo's new series (1979-1985), by Terry Bush (also the singer) and and John Crossen.

Moreover, I have just discovered that this Canadian TV series, whose first seasons aired from 1963 to 1965, is inspired by a 1958 American film by Charles R. Rondeau, where the brave German Shepherd saves a lamb, helping him to escape from a slaughterhouse. I wonder if Morrissey had ever seen this film when he was a child.

I am looking forward to see both the original film and the TV series: RAI broadcast TV aired the 80s series just once, when I was too young to remember the episodes. The only things I perfectly recalled were the fantastic dog, the music theme video, the unknown singer's voice and the bright music theme that, even if I didn't understand the lyrics when I was a little child, I considered a sort of anthem for free and independent people.
By the way, I have always felt myself like a "cane sciolto", an Italian expression which is used, especially in Sicily, for people who are like unchained dogs and love freedom above all.
Nobody should be a dog on a chain but, when I see certain people I know, I think they do love their chains.
(C) Vera da Pozzo
(C) Italy is Mine and It owes Me a Living
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