The Weekends
David Harley
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The world has changed since I was born in 1902 Two World Wars have swept away the world that we once knew Two brothers and three sisters , long dead and gone to earth Our lives were often hard, but now the weekends are the worst My old man died just 20 years past His health was never good since the Kaiser had him gassed But in the end it was cancer that carried him off so fast I miss him all the time, and the weekends are the worst You might say I was lucky, though we never had much cash But we had 50-odd good years, more than I'd dare to ask I brought up three lovely kids, though another died at birth I miss them all a lot, and the weekends are the worst I've a son in Melbourne, he's been there since '62 I've never seen his wife or kids, just a snapshot or two My eldest died in the last lot, on a convoy to Murmansk It still brings tears to my eyes, and the weekends are the worst I've a daughter in Glasgow: she writes when she has time But that's a long way off, and I've not seen her for a while She's got a son in the army, just been posted to Belfast We worry all the time, and the weekends are the worst My friends are mostly dead, or else they've moved like me When the street I was brought up in was pulled down in '63 Sixty years I'd lived there, child, girl and wife Sheltered housing's not so bad but it can be a lonely life Especially since Jim died: we weren't too bad at first But now I'm on my own the weekends are the worst There's the club once a week, though it's just from seven till nine And since my fall they only fetch me down from time to time There's my knitting and the TV, for what that might be worth But I miss the company, and the weekends are the worst
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