They always sing the same songs runs the usual complaint. Always the same old songs. But it is not the songs that grow old, it is the people who listen to them.
Eras pass over into history, and so do songs.
The people who listen to them and love them are the ones who grow old but songs are like money. The passing years merely increases their power to arouse emotion. It is not just here that people listen, bewitched, to old songs. Everyone everywhere does. Songs are like war and peace, youth and age.