CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

Jane Rushton

Spent all my summers down the Dane 

Life was great, it was one big game

Used to laugh and scream a lot and we had our own favourite spot.

Beneath the waterfall deep and cold, very dangerous we were told 

We couldn’t go and just jump right in because me mum had to check it out for wire and tin. 

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Water so cold, made you scream and shout,

That’s what my childhood memories are about. 

Water so cold, made your feet go numb.

That’s how I knew my summer holidays had begun. 

Well my mum would send us off to find firewood

'cause she’d light a fire, whenever she could. 

Dripping wet with wood-smoke in our eyes, 

We’d watch the flames flicker and rise.

Days like these were very rare, my brothers and cousins were there. 

Mum’d made some food for us all, like I said, life was a ball. 

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Well now I got a couple of kids of my own

They never grumble and they never moan.

When I took them down the Dane, everything was just the same. 

And they laugh, and they scream, and they shout a lot

They’ve got their own favourite spot, 

I have to check it out for wire and tin and then we all hold hands and we jump right in.

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