When I Was a Lad

When I was a lad about nine or ten Summers were long school holidays great then I played in our street we had so much fun Me and my mates in the warm summer sun. We felt really safe as we played in our street We respected the bobby as he walked his beat Cricket and football in the street we would play My mate smashed a window we all ran away. The girls played skipping with their hair in a bow We would rather play fight , climb trees you know We would play marbles and conkers make paper planes too Me and my mates found plenty to do. We even built a trolley using wheels from a pram We chased all the girls they squeled as they ran The days were so long much time to kill I remember playing roly poly down that grassy hill. We tried to build a raft with some oil drums tied to a big plank We took it to the river guess what it sank I had so much fun growing up as a lad I was bit of a rascal but good times we all had. Bobby is a slang word for a policeman A trolley is like a gokart but made of wood A conker grows on a Horse chestnut tree. You thread string through the conker stand facing another person with one and take turns hitting each others conker until one breaks off the string