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RUTLES lyrics : "Back In '64"

Many years from now
When your grandchildren climb up on your knee
You may be quite astonished to see

How many channels they can change on TV

When some old film in black and white

Comes on and there you are up on the screen
Or is it someone just like someone you've been
Looking not a day over nineteen


"Granddad", the little ones are asking you
"Why do you look so sad?"

So you tell them all about the fun you had

"Back in '64, before you were born

People had no time for pouring scorn
(Or scoring !@$^)
On dreams of love and peace, no one was obese

Only tight trousers were worn"



"Back in '64, we were at it like knives
Back in '64, the time of our lives
Was in the present tense

Now, does that make common sense?
Any more than girls with hair-dos called beehives?"


Back in '64, before you were born
Back in '64, before you were born
But as you've gone on and on

Your audience has flown
And as you find yourself all on your own


You may wistfully recall
How Benjamin Disraeli said that
Life is too short to be small

Or maybe like some old time song
Over all it's long so, so long, it's all over

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