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Ta Ta Tattoo

Ta Ta Tattoo I don't like you I wish that you would go I had them done when I was sixteen At this age, I didn't know One day my skin would wrinkle And crinkle up my Tat's Now all is seen is a patch of ink There's nothing fashionable about that. I wish I had been wiser And listened to my Mum My old Tat's look dreadful How could I have been so dumb?

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Caren Krutsinger

Date: 7/31/2021 8:02:00 PM

I have seen old tats, and I think to myself "the young people do not know yet" how they will eventually look. We are on same wave length Shirley.

Shirley Hawkins
Date: 8/3/2021 7:39:00 PM

Sure are...

Rico Leffanta

Date: 7/31/2021 11:46:00 AM

I have a flying eagle tattoo on my upper left arm (obtained when I was drunk in Amsterdam over sixty-years ago) which I show young people today as it appears to be gut shot. Time changes more than attitudes! Aloha! Rico

Shirley Hawkins
Date: 8/3/2021 7:46:00 PM

It would not be of such interest to the some young people of today if it wasn't ...

L Milton Hankins

Date: 7/30/2021 6:34:00 PM

LOL. You know, that's why my wife would never get a tattoo, because she had a feeling it would sag in age with her skin. So true, eh? I never got one either...but for different reasons. I heard it hurt!

Shirley Hawkins
Date: 8/3/2021 7:50:00 PM

I don't have one either. They are very popular in Oz at this time. It amazes me that so many very attractive young girls have them....