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AS I PERUSE OLD MAGICAL SONGS

By Dan Donlan, www.PoetryPoem.com/dandy1    Unlock all Features - Upgrade to Poetry Prime

A song often memorable brings back memories of the song and the girl
I had a crush on at the time. "Unforgettable" Nat King and Natilie Cole
In my case I guess I was quite forgettable. It also brings back memories
of old poems about old girlfriends

Most of what I learned in the first five years I forgot in the
fifth grade. That's when I discovered those girls I thought were
brats were with more teeth getting cute. Little Dandy had crushes.
He also wore the same clothes everyday, and yes, Mom stayed up
to the middle of the night to see I was clean, and shoes that lasted
a year masking taped. Girls liked those boys with new dudes everyday
and could treat them with candy. So not all the girls I liked liked me.
So this is about those dummies, my opinion, who let me get away.

I'VE FORGOTTEN THE GIRLS I COULDN'T FORGET

Let's see what was her name?
That girl who had my heart in a flame.
Now in the second grade I was sure, l knew it!
To forget ah--her, would be such a shame."Aint that a Shame!--Fats Domino
Lets see what was her claim to fame?
For in my heart she and I a duet.

"The little White cloud that cried" Johnny Ray

In the fifth grade same girl Blondie hair
In a room with me all I could do was stare
But thinking she would look at me was silly  (Passed away after third divorce in 2000?)
She liked macho boys Rod, Spike or the creep Billy   "Whose Sorry Now?" Connie Francis
with perfectly groomed hair. If you loved me:

Later in the fifties with Elvis the duck tail was in.
Only he wore it not because he couldn't afford haircuts.
When I did get a haircut it was a summer flattop. If you
loved me

"Half as Much", Rose Marie Clooney "As i loved you."

I learned in Junior high, sports, Girls hurt, met a real special girl
High school Cheerleader she called me by name. Wanted my vote for
Homecoming queen. Her boyfriend didn't dance.I would give her a whirl.
It took all the courage I had to ask her out to the prom.
She said, "I was the last boy she would ever date!" A boy who
had no car. There was a line of boys in front of me I had to wait.
Anyway I was off to serve my country while those boys were dodging
the draft,"Stranded in the Jungle" The Cadets

"Off we go into the Wild Blue yonder!" Airforce recruiting band.

Came home was in love again. Only she was quitting work going to meet
college studs, Heah, I was a athlete with bad grades. I fooled them they
gave me an athletic recruit scholarship. I went off to college there were
new girls to meet. "Let the good times roll" Shirley and lee. The girl
Who brougt me there broke the news to me she was engaged, "To the Aisle"
The Five Satins, wishing she was no longer single. There was going to be,
"Love his Strange" Mickey and Sylvia "Could this be Magic" The Dubs There
was in the spring going to be "A White wedding" David Bowie And for me
"Singing the Blues" Robert Mitchem? I was just a "Casual look" The six teens
"The girl can't help it" Little Richard "Now you know"The Channels "I'm
going to get married" Lloyd Price "Pretty Girls everywhere"Eugene Church
"Little darlin" The Diamonds "I was just the "Great Pretender" The Platters


Not all was lost. I was one of the dorm candidates for Dorm King. "Dance with me Henry"
Etta James "You cheated" The Shields. Never had a girl and Never been to a dance. I had
to learn."The Tennessee Waltz" Patti Page "Bongo Rock" Preston Epps   Meanwhile
the girl who wanted a break was the "Lonely One" Her number one went on tour.

I left those other boys behind the girls it seemed now liked me,
Older now, and seen the world. I was more mature you see
And the magical songs they sang next was, "My Sheri" Four Seasons.
And the special love I found hidden on the limb not falling from the tree

But first one last forgotten name. She was into athletes but it
was soon football season and I played basketball.

In college I thought I finally found her.
She said to me,
"We are too serious! I think we should see others.
"Why do fools fall in love?" Frankie Lyman
"Tell Then!" Classics
"Jenny take a ride!" Mitch Ryder
Oh, I think it was Rock in Robbin "Louie Louie"
Or wuz it? "Turn me loose!" Fabian friends said, "wild one" the Zombies
She was a groupie for. "Go Away little girl!" HAPPENINGS
"Since I don't have you!" Skyliners "Lovers never say goodbye" The Flamingoes
My favorite record then was, "I only have eyes for you" Flamingoes
"You can have her." Roy Hamilton 'wELL you love me tomorrow" the shirelles
"oh oh, I'm Falling in love again!" Jimmy Rodgers
I took the ring back she was a "Paper Doll" Buddy Knox
Life for me was "Last Kiss" J Frank Wilson "
"kinda a Drag" Buckinghams "Church Bells may ring" The Willow
and "Beep Beep"Playmates until I met

It was valentines day. The machine was now giving only bubble gum.
No more Valentine day engagement rings. My heart wanted to make up.
I bought a dozen and a half roses. No Baby Ruth Candybar, George Hamilton 1v.
He stole the song we sent in. five pound box of chocolates and her
and her favorite stuffed Pig' The Roses I gave to the girl who showed me
she was cheating on me with a fat football player. The chocolates I gave
to my Sheri who I didn't know yet but was causing me heartburn. I thought
the pig was appropriate to give to what's her name in her hunt for a footbal
player.

On the radio was playing:

"My Sheri" The Four Seasons "That old
Black Magic" Louis Prima and Keely SMith

Under the Apple Tree

The heart does know
What hides below
A smile a nod yet
Love must be denied
For the sweetest apples
Rest high upon the limbs
The rest fall to the bottom
To feed the multitudes
For that Especial apple
To be found
Leave for others those on the ground
For one day from high above
You well find that real love
There well come to those who wait the finest Apple
More sweeter than any other
That girl well be forever your one special lover

November 17, !961 My Sheri--Our 52ND anniversary
To all those girls I couldn't forget. Names I have
forgot. "Many Dreams Ago" Jan Howard Girlfriend who
wanted space I later found became "Sixteen tons"
Tennessee Ernie Ford "Mashed Potatoe Time" Dee Dee Sharp










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