John Prine Early Television Performance “Hello In There” Love this so much ❤️🫶 Hello in There” is a song written by American singer-songwriter John Prine. The song deals with themes of isolation as a result of growing old. Prine wrote the song when he was 22, stating: “I delivered to a Baptist old people’s home where we’d have to go room-to-room... and some of the patients would kind of pretend that you were a grandchild or nephew that had come to visit, instead of the guy delivering papers. Th