We Were The Boys

From the collection of song poems 'Lost and Found'

A debt of thanks is due to the back street street urchins I grew up with, plus a cast of many including the following: Ann O'Neill, Peter Radford, Lance Quinn, William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Margaret Mitchel, Elton John, Clark Gable, Frank Hampson, The Beatles, Meatloaf, Morrisey and The Smiths, David Probert, Rogers and Hammerstein, Gerry Marsden, Maria Gutierrez, Salvador Quintana, Sachiko Kawanabe, Dr John Rose, Geetika Sethi, Dr Mehmet Yildiz, Danny Oak, Akos Peterbencze and Liverpool Football Club Spion Kop.

We Were The Boys

We were the boys With all the promise Of a brand fire new summer’s day Life was a ploy with laugh upon us As we sat in the alley at play Dirt brown dangerous No one dared face us Strangers took their fright and ran away.

I was Dan Dare You just sat there Unthinking smile on your face I was ferocious, some say precocious All the world was my stage I was Clark Gable, handsome young and able You were gone with the wind and blown away

I don’t mind if you think different But I was the one with the style I was the one with imagination I was the one with the guile Flirt down danger Life is often stranger Than all the dreams of a drunken anglophile

We were the boys We went at life hell for leather We were the boys We thought it would last forever, ever, ever………….