In the days when back yards were for visiting with neighbors,
When a hot meal awaited your return from your labors,
When only one spouse need work to make a go of it,
When jewelry was for women who didn't make a show of it.
In the days when rules of society still had some meaning,
In the time before this country became so leftward leaning,
When neighbors did their very best to help each other
When the man across the street was considered your brother.
All diseases died, no one lied and life was worth living,
Then all your friends and families were kind and giving,
Every country's weapons of destruction had been turned in,
And we made the air clean so we could all breathe again.
When prison gates hung open, rusty from lack of use,
When the color of your skin suffered from no abuse,
When every country in the world heard freedom ring
Sorry...
I seem to have wandered past the reality of things....
