Golden Years <br /> <br />What ever happened to the sixties child? <br />When days were warm and nights were wild <br />Where have to Woodstock people gone? <br />From the Matthews Southern Comfort song <br />Everyone was a Rolling Stone <br />Wore beads and bangles on their clothes <br />Psychedelic LSD <br />Golden years it seems to me <br />Golden years you must agree <br /> <br />Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac <br />Sergeant Pepper, Chicken Shack <br />Marianne Faithful in the news <br />Cream with Clapton played the blues <br />Jimi played it upside down <br />Whilst Ten Years After played in town <br />Grateful dead and CND <br />Golden years it seems to me <br />Golden years you must agree <br /> <br />Throughout the world the governments shook <br />And Tolkein people read ‘the book’ <br />The film to see was Soldier Blue <br />Procul Harem shade the pale <br />Mick and Keith released on bail <br />‘Bookends’, ‘Graduate’ ‘At the zoo’ <br />Dark side of the moon Apollo flew <br />Doing ‘Tommy’ live at Leeds, The Who <br /> <br />By 1970 the dream had gone <br />People wondered what went wrong? <br />The Hendrix legend died one night <br />No love at the Isle of White <br />Janice gone and no more Doors <br />But the music will live for evermore <br />No more Beatles for you and me <br />The golden years have gone you see <br />Golden years you must agree <br />Strawberry fields LSD <br />Flowers, love and Let it Be <br />Mary Quant, CND <br />Images that come to me <br />Golden years you must agree <br />Golden years it seems to me<br /><br />Stephen Holland<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/golden-years-9/
