The assassins hit in 63 And Camelot was gone, Inspiration vanished And the darkness sang it’s song. Vietnam escalated Brezhnev’s Russia loomed, Africa was eviscerated And Red China entombed. Floating on a long white cloud The Kiwis were replete With abundant British markets For their butter, wool and meat. The Europeans went **** And Britain lost it’s way When the Beatles and the Rolling Stones Monopolized their day. Man landed on the moon And raised the Yankee flag And they shot Mahatma Ghandi For making good things out of bad. The Berlin Wall dividing, The Cold War tense and spare, ICBM’s threaten silently In their silos of despair. Bob Menzies ruled Australia As an amassing of his loot And his White Australia Policy Condemned him as a brute. Found naked on her tousled bed, Blonde hair across her face, Marylin Monroe is dead The world’s a darker place. In the Age of Aquarius Our children lost their youth, LSD and smoking *** And Afro’s were the proof. Lots of leg in miniskirts, High bouffant’s in the hair, Screaming teeny boppers Rock with Elvis on “the Air”. Giant, Rawhide, Ponderosa, Martin Luther King, Kaftans and a cheese fondue, Abortion is a sin!
It’s a sixties kaleidoscope, A panoramic skim Of an era of wonderment Which you and I lived in.
Marshalg @the Gate Mangere Bridge 20th January 2009