archie langford

I remember well that summer place,
The sun, the sea, the surf soaked sand,
The light that lit your lovley face,
As we splashed bare foot, hand in hand.
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The morning after the Princess Sleeping Beauty married the handsome
Prince, the Queen came down to breakfast-
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The world has burst assunder,
It`s fragments groung to dust,
Good swallowed up by evil
Purity rank with fust.
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It was Christmas eve in the valley
The miners came up from the pit,
They came out of the cage picked up their wage
And went home for a shower and a shave.
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An equation came to me,
While sitting firmly on the fence-
The higher the education
The lower the common sense.
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A cloudless sky,
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I cant pretend that the long week end
That I spent in gay Parie
Though `twas great left me in a state
Of very low degree.
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If the paint is peeling in the parlor
And the walls they look the worse for ware,
If you suddenly get the feeing
You aught to paint the ceiling,
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Now that I have grown old
And me ticker aint too good
Time is growing very short
That`s clearly understood.
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In `39 when war begun I thought I`d fight the Hun,
So I left my job as a trainee chef,
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Sleep, blessed sleep desert me not
But let your tender hands caress my eyes,
And all my aching body steep
in thy luxurious paradise.
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Hoidays are very well
But like all else they have to end,
And we must leave their magic spell-
We slaves of life and condesend
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And all for what?
we die be it soon or late,
for death is our only certain fate.
And vet how we humans strive
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Oh that I might dance once more,
Dance in the old fashioned way,
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Recently I`ve learned a trick
To always take my walking stick.
When I enter shops or stores
Kind folk jump to open doors
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Mother`s cooking

I remember on Mondays
The first day of the week,
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They call me a cynic
cause my feet`s on the ground
And I don`t look at life
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The soft white snow was calling,
From the Alpine mountain waste
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Searching.

In vain I search but I search on,
Along life`s lonely corridor,
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Where do wrinkles come from,
That`s what I`d like to know,
Last time I looked I had not one
That was thirty years ago
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