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There was a time when I was young To share an era that begun From music to the fashion trend TV shows and history Fads and other mysteries I saw them all as time moved on From classic pop to rock and roll Bill Haley and the Elvis craze And four years in my Air Force phase But Jitterbug still hung around The big bands had that unique sound Time moved on to start the clock European cinema Fellini, Bergman made the mien And Japan added to the pie To film The Seven Samurai Brando, Newman and James Dean newly captured on the screen Television's Golden Age All the programs set the stage For Gunsmoke and the Twilight Zone I love Lucy, I married Joan TV tubes were changed a lot Wrestling shows were really hot Mantle, Mays and Robinson Took baseball to another rung The coonskin cap and hula hoop Duck tail hair and snapper soup I wore one with a thick pomade And ate the soup that Momma made My fashion sense left much to judge As if I had good taste for fudge Pegged pants with a six inch rise Ladys skirts were different then Lengths that came down to their shins Three inch higher was a sin Still dirty minds existed then In Belgium back in 58 I saw an exhibit on that date The Sputnik with a cute stray dog was launched so high up in the air Before the U.S. could get there Then the race to conquer space McCarthy hearings, lives destroyed The Cold War was our only plight The Commies kept their nukes in check And Castro entered on the scene There were no hot wars left to fight Days still continued as well as night I share a new millennium But today the future's not so bright No more long hand, the laptop's here Facebook and Twitter have conquered our sphere The death knell has tolled for how life was then Rekindle your past and live again Ralph Sergi February 19, 2015 Decades by Kelly Deschler
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