OLD TIME ROCK AND ROLL

 

OLD TIME ROCK AND ROLL

getting happy in the middle of the week

kettle on the boil

trying to maybe get some soul

or spend too much time trying not to freak

Tuesday on OZ

rock and roll from the fifties

high school, working days

and then the Army for me

have to settle for tea

have run out of cream for my coffee

sweet tea is OK in a way

on this Tuesday in the grey

the reoccurring dream

won’t go away

and the faces of those who have gone

are here even in the middle of the day

clap hands in time to the band

and leave this never never land

but sweet tea will

have to do for me

Come on baby let the good times roll

say the long dead singers with so much soul

with the rocking pneumonia

and the shit kicking country blues to go

zydico and washboard tunes

and the spell checker

and the dictionary

don’t know the word

maybe its something they have never heard

cold water on my face

need to wake up

and get out of this place

see you later alligator

after a while crocodile

was the cool expression

in my crowd said out loud

zoot suits pegged pants skinny ties

boogie cuts and pointy toed shoes

and too much grease in your hair

the Saturday night zit on your nose going nowhere

55 cheivys or 38 Plymouth hot rods

the guys

 lucky enough to have them

were the teenage gods

swimming in the sea of nostalgia

with the might have been

remembering

the might have seen

JWL

me in June 1956 Germany