Where Were You In the Seventies

WHERE WERE YOU IN THE SEVENTIES i was between a tween and adult, in the house of the hudson valley, and music was my main man, i would hear whispered in my ear me and mrs. jones...we got a thing goin’ on and i would rock to sleep don’t rock the boat...don’t knock the boat over dress in a low cut purple dress, and look for mr. goodbar or what i meant to say mr. travolta in the dizzying display of disco, having a ball. really i was just a shy nerd in a dress you say i was a dancing queen...only seventeen...oh yeah and i did have saturday night fever and with the death of several classmates, not in shootings, but illness and the usual car accidents...radio groans all we are is dust in the wind after heartbreak of loss via death and puppy love i did not sign the loan to return to college, went on to, as i used to say “swab the seven corners of the room” as the village people and my dad directed me to in the navy...you will sail the seven seas...in the navy… you will put your life at ease...bootcamp saw the end of 1979 2/27/2018 Line Gauthier’s Poetry Contest *Lyrics may be slightly changed Me and Mrs. Jones by Billy Paul Rock The Boat by The Hues Corporation Movie: Looking For Mr. Goodbar Dancing Queen by Abba Movie: Saturday Night Fever Dust in the Wind by Kansas Puppy Love by Donny Osmond (still swooning over this song from the sixties) In The Navy by Village People