The Lost World Symphony – Pt 2

...some more from times gone by.

You've moved on from going to Brownies and Cubs

It's Guides and Scouts that now get your subs.

Leave shorts at home or else feel a fool

We all know long pants are worn at big school.

Lots of your playground games are all done,

It's time for some different, new kinds of fun.

Gone is the farmer back in his den,

Only Mr Wolf will remember just when

Oranges and Lemons would ring out the bells,

and big ships on the Ally-O would set forth their sails.

Knicker-tuck handstands up against the walls

and bouncing off bricks with your two rubber balls.

Clapping to Pat-a-Cake and My Mother Says.

Conkers and hopscotch filling your days

Ring-a-ring o'roses, all fall down,

then Simon Says you should all turn around.

Do you still remember kerby, and French Skipping elastic?

In the days when games weren't all made of plastic.

Pogo, sticks, hula-hoops, marbles and jacks

all came before game cards in newsagent packs

Then there were always the latest of crazes

Spacehoppers and Choppers and Clackers were phases.

Old faithfuls remained like Kiss-Chase and Tag

Squeezy bottle water fights, not balloons from a bag.

Cat's Cradle or skipping: did you double-dutch?

An american thing, never seen here too much

Those days are behind us no more will we see,

Nostalgia just ain't what it used to be.