TAKEN BACK

A melody haunts me
Like a ghost from way back
Familiar, remembered
A stardust memory
From yesteryear
A good memory
Of a great time
Of halcyon days
Never to be seen again
I’m back for an instant
Riding the Clapham Omnibus
With girls in cloche hats
And dancing at the Palais
With girls in silk stockings
Watching Morris dancing
On the village green
And noisy steam trains
Thundering into the station
Listening to the band play
In the park on Sundays
Walking my girl home
After a night at the pictures
Sunday lunch at mums
A welcoming fire in the grate
That talk with dad
Before my first date
A simpler time a happier time
But you can’t return
Even if you want to
But you can remember