Those Days Are Gone

My ideal at the time.

CARRY ON TUESDAY
http://carryontuesdayprompt.blogspot.com
asks us to use the opening lines of the song
 'All By Myself'.

'When I was young, I never needed anyone, And making love was just for  fun, Those days are gone.'

THOSE DAYS ARE GONE

When I was young, say, in my teens,

Young girls were still just in-betweens;

Children one minute, wives the next;

'Marry early' was the text.

Ideally, just a year or two

Separated childhood from 'I do'.

And making love for fun was not

Part of the British social plot.

I never needed anyone

To say 'Stop that! Stop having fun!'

Because it all seemed very normal

To be a little stiff and formal,

And parents kept an eagle-eye.

(Later on I discovered why!)

That was just how the mating game

Was played back then. All rather tame!

Of course, 'that tarty Peg', with Fred,

Carried on behind the shed,

But they were just an awful warning....

'Would he still love her in the morning'?
How times have changed; those days are gone.
The world has a way of travelling on.
The pendulum has swung, I fear
Too far away from yesteryear.
'Anything goes' is the clarion call......
And that means anything at all!
A happy medium's what is needed.....
(I bet my words will not be heeded!)
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A Simple Alphabet
PIES

There was a young lady from Putney
Who loved to eat pies laced with chutney!
She ate pies by the score
And then bleated for more
And the people accused her of glutney.
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