It's true that we're nowhere near September, but this song is about approaching the end, which makes it appropriate for December 29th. Written by Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill, the song probably owes its existence to Walter Huston, father of John, grandfather of Anjelica.
According to Joshua Logan's memoirs, when Knickerbocker Holiday was in the planning stages, Huston, who had been selected for a lead role, suggested that his character have a song to sing to the ingenue as he made a hopeless play for her love. Maxwell Anderson liked the idea and worked with Weill to create this oft-covered paean to a dwindling life force. Here is Willie Nelson's version from 1978, produced and arranged by Booker T. Jones of Booker T. & the M.G.s, thus proving once again that You Just Never Know.
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