long ago

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> > Long ago and far away,
> > In a land that time forgot,
> > Before the days of Dylan,
> > Or the dawn of Camelot.
> >
> > There lived a race of innocents,
> > And they were you and me,
> > Long ago and far away
> > In the Land That Made Me Me.
> >
> > Oh, there was truth and good ness
> > In that land where we were born,
> > Where navels were for oranges,
> > And Peyton Place was porn.
> >
> > For Ike was in the White House,
> > And Hoss was on TV,
> > And God was in His heaven
> > In the Land That Made Me Me.
> >
> > We learned to gut a muffler,
> > We washed our hair at dawn,
> > We spread our crinolines to dry
> > In circles on the lawn.
> >
> > And they could hear us coming
> > All the way to Tennessee,
> > All starched and sprayed and rumbling
> > in the Land That Made Me Me.
> >
> > We longed for love and romance,
> > And waited for the prince,
> > And Eddie Fisher married Liz,
> > And no one's seen him since.
> >
> > We danced to "Little Darlin'",
> > And Sang to "Stagger Lee"
> > And cried for Buddy Holly
> > In the Land That Made Me Me.
> >
> > Only girls wore earrings then,
> > And three was one too many,
> > And only boys wore flat-top cuts,
> > Except for Jean McKinney.
> >
> > And only in our wildest dreams
> > Did we expect to see
> > A boy named George, with Lipstick
> > In the Land That Made Me Me.
> >
> > We fell for Frankie Avalon,
> > Annette was, oh, so nice,
> > And when they made a movie,
> > They never made it twice.
> >
> > We didn't have a Star Trek Five,
> > Or Psycho Two and Three,
> > Or Rockey-Rambo Twenty
> > In the Land That Made Me Me.
> >
> > Miss Kitty had a heart of gold,
> > And Chester had a limp,
> > And Reagan was a Democrat
> > Whose co-star was a chimp.
> >
> > We had a Mr Wizard,
> > But not a Mr T,
> > And Oprah couldn't talk, yet
> > In the Land That Made Me Me.
> >
> > We had our share of heroes,
> > We never thought they'd go,
> > At least not Bobby Darin,
> > Or Marilyn Monroe.
> >
> > For youth was still eternal,
> > And life was yet to be,
> > And Elvis was forever,
> > In the Land That Made Me Me.
> >
> >
> >
> > We'd never seen the rock band
> > That was Grateful to be Dead,
> > And Airplanes weren't named Jefferson,
> > And Zeppelins weren't Led.
> >
> > And Beatles lived in gardens then,
> > And Monkees in a tree,
> > Madonna was a virgin
> > In the Land That Made Me Me.
> >
> > We'd never heard of Microwaves,
> > And "gay" meant fancy-free,
> > And dorms were never coed
> > In the Land That Made Me Me.
> >
> > We hadn't seen enough of jets
> > To talk about the lag,
> > And microchips were what was left at
> > The bottom of the bag.
> >
> > And Hardware was a box of nails,
> > And bytes came from a flea,
> > And rocket ships were fiction
> > In the Land That Made Me Me.
> >
> > Buicks came with portholes,
> > And side show came with freaks,
> > And bathing suits came big enough
> > To cover both your cheeks.
> >
> > And Coke came just in bottles,
> > And skirts came to the knee,
> > And Castro came to power
> > In the Land That Made Me Me.
> >
> > We had no Crest with Fluoride,
> > We had no Hill Street Blues,
> > We all wore superstructure bras
> > Designed by Howard Hughes.
> >
> > We had no patterned pantyhose
> > Or Lipton herbal tea
> > Or prime-time ads for condoms
> > In the Land That Made Me Me.
> >
> > There were no golden arches,
> > No Perriers to chill,
> > And fish were not called Wanda,
> > And cats were not called Bill.
> >
> > And middle-aged was thirty-five
> > And old was forty-three,
> > And ancient was our parents
> > In the Land That Made Me Me.
> >
> > But all things have a season,
> > Or so we've heard them say,
> > And now instead of Maybelline
> > We swear by Retin-A.
> >
> > And they send us invitations
> > To join AARP,
> > We've come a long way, baby,
> > From the Land That Made Me Me.
> >
> > So now we face a brave new world
> > In slightly larger jeans,
> > And wonder why they're using
> > Smaller print in magazines.
> >
> > And we tell our children's children
> > of the way it used to be,
> > Long ago, and far away
> > In the Land That Made Me Me.