This is not for the younger folks ....
LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY ....
Long ago and far away
In a land that time forgot
Before the days of Dylan
Or the dawn of Camelot
There lived a race of innocents
And they were you and me
Long ago and far away
In the Land That Made Me, Me
Oh, there was truth and goodness
In that land where we were born
Where navels were for oranges
And Peyton Place was porn
For Ike was in the White House
And Hoss was on TV
And God was in his heaven
In the Land That Made Me, Me
We learned to gut a muffler
We washed our hair at dawn
We spread our crinolines to dry
In circles on the lawn
And they could hear us coming
All the way to Tennessee
All starched and sprayed and rumbling
in the Land That Made Me, Me
We longed for love and romance
And waited for the prince
And Eddie Fisher married Liz
And no one's seen him since
We danced to "Little Darlin"
And Sang to "Stagger Lee"
And cried for Buddy Holly
In the Land That Made Me, Me
Only girls wore earrings then
And three was one too many
And only boys wore flat-top cuts
Except for Jean McKinney
And only in our wildest dreams
Did we expect to see
A boy named George with Lipstick
In the Land That Made Me, Me
We fell for Frankie Avalon
Annette was oh, so nice
And when they made a movie
They never made it twice
We didn't have a Star Trek Five
Or Psycho Two and Three
Or Rocky-Rambo Twenty
In the Land That Made Me, Me
Miss Kitty had a heart of gold
And Chester had a limp
And Reagan was a Democrat
Whose co-star was a chimp
We had a Mr Wizard
But not a Mr T
And Oprah couldn't talk yet
In the Land That Made Me, Me
We had our share of heroes
We never thought they'd go
At least not Bobby Darin
Or Marilyn Monroe
For youth was still eternal
And life was yet to be
And Elvis was forever
In the Land That Made Me, Me
We'd never seen the rock band
That was Grateful to be Dead,
And Airplanes weren't named Jefferson
And Zeppelins weren't Led
And Beatles lived in gardens then
And Monkees in a tree
Madonna was a virgin
In the Land That Made Me, Me
We'd never heard of Microwaves
Or telephones in cars
And babies might be bottle-fed
But they weren't grown in jars
And pumping iron got wrinkles out
And "gay" meant fancy-free
And dorms were never coed
In the Land That Made Me, Me
We hadn't seen enough of jets
To talk about the lag
And microchips were what was left at
The bottom of the bag
And Hardware was a box of nails
And bytes came from a flea
And rocket ships were fiction
In the Land That Made Me, Me
Buicks came with portholes
And side shows came with freaks
And bathing suits came big enough
To cover both your cheeks
And Coke came just in bottles
And skirts came to the knee
And Castro came to power
In the Land That Made Me, Me
We had no Crest with Fluoride
We had no Hill Street Blues
We all wore superstructure bras
Designed by Howard Hughes
We had no patterned pantyhose
Or Lipton herbal tea
Or prime-time ads for condoms
In the Land That Made Me ,Me
There were no golden arches
No Perriers to chill
And fish were not called Wanda
And cats were not called Bill
And middle-aged was thirty-five
And old was forty-three
And ancient was our parents
In the Land That Made Me, Me
But all things have a season
Or so we've heard them say
And now instead of Maybelline
We swear by Retin-A
They send us invitations
To join AARP
We've come a long way, baby,
From the Land That Made Me, Me
Now we face a brave new world
In slightly larger jeans
And wonder why they're using
Smaller print in magazines
We tell our children's children
of the way it used to be
Long ago and far away
In the Land That Made Me, Me
[:D]
Long ago and far away
In a land that time forgot
Before the days of Dylan
Or the dawn of Camelot
There lived a race of innocents
And they were you and me
Long ago and far away
In the Land That Made Me, Me
Oh, there was truth and goodness
In that land where we were born
Where navels were for oranges
And Peyton Place was porn
For Ike was in the White House
And Hoss was on TV
And God was in his heaven
In the Land That Made Me, Me
We learned to gut a muffler
We washed our hair at dawn
We spread our crinolines to dry
In circles on the lawn
And they could hear us coming
All the way to Tennessee
All starched and sprayed and rumbling
in the Land That Made Me, Me
We longed for love and romance
And waited for the prince
And Eddie Fisher married Liz
And no one's seen him since
We danced to "Little Darlin"
And Sang to "Stagger Lee"
And cried for Buddy Holly
In the Land That Made Me, Me
Only girls wore earrings then
And three was one too many
And only boys wore flat-top cuts
Except for Jean McKinney
And only in our wildest dreams
Did we expect to see
A boy named George with Lipstick
In the Land That Made Me, Me
We fell for Frankie Avalon
Annette was oh, so nice
And when they made a movie
They never made it twice
We didn't have a Star Trek Five
Or Psycho Two and Three
Or Rocky-Rambo Twenty
In the Land That Made Me, Me
Miss Kitty had a heart of gold
And Chester had a limp
And Reagan was a Democrat
Whose co-star was a chimp
We had a Mr Wizard
But not a Mr T
And Oprah couldn't talk yet
In the Land That Made Me, Me
We had our share of heroes
We never thought they'd go
At least not Bobby Darin
Or Marilyn Monroe
For youth was still eternal
And life was yet to be
And Elvis was forever
In the Land That Made Me, Me
We'd never seen the rock band
That was Grateful to be Dead,
And Airplanes weren't named Jefferson
And Zeppelins weren't Led
And Beatles lived in gardens then
And Monkees in a tree
Madonna was a virgin
In the Land That Made Me, Me
We'd never heard of Microwaves
Or telephones in cars
And babies might be bottle-fed
But they weren't grown in jars
And pumping iron got wrinkles out
And "gay" meant fancy-free
And dorms were never coed
In the Land That Made Me, Me
We hadn't seen enough of jets
To talk about the lag
And microchips were what was left at
The bottom of the bag
And Hardware was a box of nails
And bytes came from a flea
And rocket ships were fiction
In the Land That Made Me, Me
Buicks came with portholes
And side shows came with freaks
And bathing suits came big enough
To cover both your cheeks
And Coke came just in bottles
And skirts came to the knee
And Castro came to power
In the Land That Made Me, Me
We had no Crest with Fluoride
We had no Hill Street Blues
We all wore superstructure bras
Designed by Howard Hughes
We had no patterned pantyhose
Or Lipton herbal tea
Or prime-time ads for condoms
In the Land That Made Me ,Me
There were no golden arches
No Perriers to chill
And fish were not called Wanda
And cats were not called Bill
And middle-aged was thirty-five
And old was forty-three
And ancient was our parents
In the Land That Made Me, Me
But all things have a season
Or so we've heard them say
And now instead of Maybelline
We swear by Retin-A
They send us invitations
To join AARP
We've come a long way, baby,
From the Land That Made Me, Me
Now we face a brave new world
In slightly larger jeans
And wonder why they're using
Smaller print in magazines
We tell our children's children
of the way it used to be
Long ago and far away
In the Land That Made Me, Me
[:D]
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ouch, by the time I read that, I will be old! 0 -
Preaty cool[:)] 0 -
All too true !!
Doug0 -
[:)][:D]...Good read for sure 0 -
Good one! [:D] 0
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