Find this memorial to two chimpanzees and a horse on the '“that guy” album

Elizabeth and Walton

A True Story… back in 1969, I did a week’s work surveying structural steel baseplates for the windowless building you see on the left side of the photo here. It is a heating plant for a hospital next door. You can see the concrete stack that rose out of the middle of the building. This is downtown Toronto. Back in ‘69, the other tall buildings in the photo did not exist. In fact, the land where the tall, grey striped building sits was just a parking lot and the construction site was a hole in the ground within the parking lot.

But, right on the corner of this Walton and Elizabeth parking lot sat one old house with a few big trees giving it shade. The guys on the construction job said there are two chimpanzees in that house that ride motor bikes around the parking lot in the evening and three is also a horse in the house. Things change!

D                      Dmaj7
Elizabeth and Walton
D7                    G          Gm
Middle of the concrete jungle
C7/g                 A7
Towering walls of steel and glass
A                      D
Nothing here to remember

If you’re here, you’re passing by
No one’s here to stay
Just a space between
Tomorrow and yesterday   

D7
G                     A
Live long enough and you will see
D                      Bm
The World change many, many times
G                     E
Is it better, is it worse
A
You tell me.

Way back in ‘69
This place was not like this
I was there to help it change
And I saw things you shouldn’t miss

An empty asphalt parking lot
About to lose all its relevance
And one little rundown house
Alone on the corner in resistance

Every night after dinner
Two chimpanzees rode motorbikes
Around the lot, ignoring us
Amusing, simple tykes

As we watched the Chimps ride
One guy said, “And of course
In that house,
they also have a horse.”

Live long enough and you will see
The World change in many many ways
Is it better, is it worse
You tell me.

Maybe 200 years ago
A time pretty much forgotten,
There was nothing here but trees
And there was no Elizabeth and Walton