"OH FOR THE GOOD OLD SCHOOLDAYS"

 

 

          

        

 

YES I'M BACK FROM MY HOLIDAYS J/LAND BUT THIS ISN'T AN HOLIDAY RHYME.

 

I HAVN'T UPLOADED MY PICTURES  YET SO I THOUGHT I WOULD POST THIS TIME.

 

ABOUT A PHOTO  I FOUND LAST NIGHT LOOKING FOR SOMETHING ELSE.

 

PLUS A LITTLE STORY ABOUT MY SISTER AND A LITTLE ABOUT MYSELF.

 

OH! FOR THE GOOD OLD SCHOOLDAYS AND HOW I LOVED THEM SO.

 

WHEN VERY YOUNG I LOVED THEM AND WITH EAGERNESS I'D GO .

 

EACH AND EVERY MORNING UP AT THE CRACK OF DAWN.

 

LOOKING FORWARD ONCE AGAIN TO ANOTHER SCHOOLDAY MORN.

 

THEN ONE EVENING SADLY TRAGEDY STRUCK WHAT  A MESS.

 

MY SISTER WHILST DOING HER HOMEWORK CAUGHT FIRE HER FLANNEL NIGHTDRESS.

 

FATHER RUSHED OVER AND GRABBED HER QUICK AND ROLLED HER IN A RUG.

 

NOT TO MAKE HER COSY NOR TO MAKE HER NICE AND SNUG.

 

BUT TO DIE OUT ALL THE FLAMES WHICH RAGED AND ENVELOPED HER SO.

 

THE AMBULANCE CAME  AND TO THE HOSPITAL SISTER  MOTHER AND FATHER DID GO.

 

WELL THE STORY GOES MY FATHERS HANDS WERE VERY BADLY BURNED .

 

A LESSON DON'T SIT WITH YOUR BACK TO THE FIRE MY SISTER QUICKLY LEARNED.

 

MY MOTHER SHE WAS ILL WITH THE SHOCK AND THE THREE OF THEM YOU SEE.

 

WERE OUT OF ACTION SO EVERYTHING HAD TO BE DONE AT THAT TIME  BY ME.

 

THIS MEANT I HAD  A WEEK OFF SCHOOL TO HELP THEM ALL BACK THEN.

 

SO FATHER SENT OFF A LETTER TO THE HEAD TO TELL HIM WHEN .

 

MOTHER FELT MUCH BETTER I WOULD RETURN TO SCHOOL ONCE MORE.

 

I WAS VERY UPSET AND SAD THEY WERE BURNED AND ALL SO VERY SORE.

 

YET STILL MY HEART WAS LONGING TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL AGAIN.

 

SO I TOO WAS A LITTLE SORE BECAUSE IN MY HEART I FELT A PAIN.

 

THEN CAME A LETTER FROM THE SCHOOL I'D WON A MEDAL HE-HE.

 

TWO YOUNG LADS AND ONLY ONE GIRL OUT OF ALL THE SCHOOL  YES ME.

 

FOR PERFECT ATTENDANCE THE HEADLINES  READ JUSTICE REAPS IT'S REWARDS.

 

THIS  THE TITLE IN THE LOCAL PAPER AND A PICTURE WITH OUR AWARDS.

 

FOR NEVER BEING LATE OR ABSENT FOR THE WHOLE OF ALL THREE YEARS.

 

AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN FOUR YEARS IF THAT EVENING HADN'T BROUGHT TEARS.

 

SO BECAUSE I HAD ONE WEEK OFF SCHOOL TO HELP OUT AT THAT SAD TIME .

 

THIS HAD BROKEN THE FOUR YEAR ATTENDANCE BUT ALL HAD TURNED OUT FINE.

 

WELL OFF  I WENT THIS WINTERS MORNING ALONG TO MEET THE PRESS.

 

HAIR DONE UP IN THE BOUFFANT (HE-HE) IN A CANDY STRIPED WOOL DRESS.

 

FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE I WAS AND FEELING OH! SO PROUD.

 

THAT I HAD EARNED AN ATTENDANCE MEDAL CHEERED ON BY THE SCHOOL CROWD.

 

I CAME ACROSS THE PICTURE FRIENDS FROM THE PAPER JUST LAST NIGHT.

 

AND I LAUGHED MY LID OFF AT IT WELL  DON'T I LOOK A SIGHT.   HE-HE.

 

LOOK AT THE CRAZY HEADBAND  BUT THEY WERE ALL THE RAGE.

 

PLUS THE KISS CURLS ROUND MY CHEEKS HE-HE IN THE  HEADLINES ON THE FRONT PAGE.

 

I AM HAPPY TO ALSO TELL YOU THAT MY SISTER SHE DID REAL WELL.

 

NO SCARS FROM THE BURNS HER SKIN HEALED GREAT SO EVERYTHING TURNED OUT SWELL.

 

WELL HERES THE  PRESENTATION PIC COUNCILLOR BARNES IS SAYING WELL DONE.

 

FOR NEVER BEING LATE OR ABSCENT YES MY SCHOOLDAYS THEY WERE FUN.

 

     

 

     

 

THE MESSAGE  ON THE MEDALS  NOT PLAIN AS YOU ALL WILL SEE.

 

I DIDN'T WANT MY MAIDEN NAME SHOWING I HOPE YOU ALL AGREE.

 

I WORKED HARD  AND I DID MY  BEST AT SCHOOL AND I ALWAYS SHOWED RESPECT.

 

NEVER THINKING  I'D  GET A MEDAL AT ALL NO NOTHING DID I EXPECT.

 

SO SHORTLY I WILL POST  A RHYME WITH SOME PICS FROM MY HOLIDAY.

 

UNTIL THEN I HOPE YOU ARE  ALL FEELING WELL BUT FOR NOW I WILL ONCE AGAIN SAY.

 

OH! FOR THE GOOD OLD SCHOOLDAYS I LOVED ONCE UPON A TIME.

 

EVERY DAY I LOOKED FORWARD TO GOING TO SCHOOL  AS YOU'VE READ IN

 

                                              "MY SIMPLE RHYME".

 

                          

 

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