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"Maybe Tomorrow"... The Littlest Hobo

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Updated: Oct 29, 2024

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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