Back to the fifties

August 17, 2023 by davidjhopcroft 1 Comment

Back to the fifties

Summertime is here and they are coming for the hops

Escaping from the city smoke and the little corner shops

Families will sleep tonight on sacks of straw

Breathing pure country air flowing through the door

Friendships are formed on coaches driving out to farms

Children from the alleyways now have space to play

Lassies will find their pleasure in another’s arms

Sweet lasting memories will be made on this holiday

Climbing vines are cut and fall to the ground

Flowers will be stripped to make the finest ale

Excitement there’s a queen to be crowned

A summer fayre will make a future tale

Swinging in the rocking boats on the village green

Shying at the coconuts with a cricket ball

Susan from the gasworks is this year’s queen

Kids with sticky faces eat candy at the stall

Shire horses now pull the reapers across the fields

Young men and women follow to stook the sheaves

Horses are pulling great carts with creaking wheels

Once quarrelling families are now thick as thieves

Times change now families seek sunshine overseas

Dust from great harvesters now choke the air

We’ve a dying countryside and a lack of pleas

To work with nature in the future is my prayer

Copyright: David Hopcroft August 2023