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What's so important? I said to myself While rushing out in a spiffy It started me thinking of what use to be As I grew up in the mid-fifties When I was 13 it was important to have The essentials of everyday life A radio, records, Spalding, some chalk A rope, bubble gum and a bike My jeans were six bucks, no designers, no labels Six channels on TV, no discs, dish or cable No yahoo or Google , no computer to boot No carpooling kids, all trips made on foot But now the essentials when leaving my home Is an Ipod, Blackberry, a camera cell phone I must pack a water, wear jeans with a label And ALL of my TV's are hooked up to cable. Important? It isn't..... I'd give them all up I'd go back to my six dollar jeans When families together would sit down for dinner Then watch Lucy on one screened TV When schools did not have metal detectors When kids could play out on the streets When mothers were home making children their breakfast And ice cream was considered a treat !! It's 2009 and it is what it is Important means all that you own But for those who have lived in those mid-fifty years Important means family and home.
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