MY YOUTH & TODAYS

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Do you remember when we were kids

Days at the seaside the things we did

Sandwiches tasting gritty with sand

Ice cream cones melting over our hands

Playing with buckets and spades for hours

The best sandcastles were always ours

Around them we always dug out moats

Made our lolly sticks into a boat

Drawbridges made from cuttlefish bones

Our names were spelt out in shells and stones

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Things are all so different today

When I see the young children at play

Going out in the fresh air's a chore

They'd rather spend time behind closed doors

Their mobile phones and computer games

Is what they live for how things have changed

The kids of today don't have to fear

The old hand me downs passed on each year

For them designer labels will do

We were content with no socks and shoes

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Remembering it all makes me sad

Thinking of all the things that we had

Not bought with money yes that is true

But we were not short of things to do 

With no TV or video games

Life was still full of fun all the same

From nothing we were able to make

Slides and rides that caused many a scrape

Would I exchange those days of my youth

For their’s today, no way and that's the truth.