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Those Sixties country as flag
Coca-Cola... hula-hoops
keeping up on all the scoops
Me and Walter Cronkite...
we paid our dues
at the Six O'clock News...
sittin' there every night
havin' to talk of JFK... dead in Dallas...
shot in the broad daylight...
and Bobby... lyin' in blood in L.A.
Martin Luther King assassinated... dead
Black and white riots... a terrible sight
I watched it all...
cryin' as the eulogies were read
... heard of Woodstock and music and drugs
Credence Clearwater Revival
singin' loud and proud...
Flower Power in San Fran...
preachin' love if you asked... and...
then robbin' each other of their stash
Volunteers and draftees...
trainin' for jungle survival
but no warnin' of napalm in the breeze
Just dodge the bullets... please
... and away they went
smellin' of Jade East... and Old Spice
a nostalgic scent...
really nice
Patriots... yahoos and hippies...
Oh... I sure remember the sixties...
and bloody Vietnam... and body counts
Kent State killin's... and campus riots
Cult leaders and political taunts
... heard of Woodstock and music and drugs
more Vietnam... and more body counts...
Lord... more body counts
I still like to listen to CCR
and Cola-cola... it's still good
As for the sixties...
... some of them still say...
that some of it didn't mean nothin'

but dear God... it should... it should...
By Faye Sizemore
Copyright 2005
Listed March 11, 2012		  

About Author... Faye Sizemore makes her home in the beautiful foothills of South Carolina with Grant, the love of her life, as well as three dogs, two cats, two parakeets and four nanny goats. Grant is a Vietnam Veteran having served with the US Marines in 1968-69 and is, of course, Faye's muse. Faye is deeply interested in Veterans' Affairs and Veterans' Causes. She is very proud of Grant and her poetry is an off-shoot of that pride.

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