My Amazing Dream

© 2008 by Stan C. Countz, All rights reserved

Take a ride in my time machine
Take a spin, it’s been a changing scene
How long’s it been since you were sweet sixteen
and you knew absolutely everything?
Ducktails and Brylcream
A little dab ‘l do ya;
what’s been happenin’ to ya?
Glory hallelujah

We’re hawkin’ Oleo and Ovaltine
got a brand new polio vaccine
You should’ve seen what we paid for gasoline
It would’ve made you scream
It’s not what it seems
It’s my Amazing Dream

Around the World in Eighty Days
Mohammed Ali was Cassius Clay
We loved the Saturday movie matinee
Rock Hudson and Doris Day

They had their own grace and style
But when The King would sing
Everyone would smile
To see a wild toehead child
dancin’ in the aisles

That little kid was me
Way back in sixty three
I was only eight
But even I could see
Those days were great
and there will never be
Anything quite like
Those amazing days...

Kate Hepburn and Spencer Tracy
Sad Sack and Beatle Bailey
Dick Tracy and George and Gracie
They made us laugh and smile
At least for a little while
and who could forget Carol Burnett
and Gomer Pyle?

But when The King would sing
everyone would smile
to see a wild toehead child
dancin’ in the aisles

That little kid was me; way back in ’63
I was only eight but even I could see
Those days were great and there will never be
anything quite like those amazing days
Or was it only a passing faze
or a momentary craze?
My memory’s a haze
or were they really the good ol’ days?