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First Line: It must be years and years ago
Last Line: It must be years and years ago.
Subject(s): Nostalgia


It must be years and years ago,
When things were cheap, and we had snow --
It must be forty, I suppose --
When men wore whiskers, women clo'es,
And So-and-So knew So-and-So
(Now no one no one ever knows).

Why, I remember sirloin steak
Ten cents a pound. You didn't make
A lot of money, maybe, no --
But, gosh, you didn't need it so;
Not very much it used to take --
But that was years and years ago.

It must be -- I remember when
Folks went to church, yes, even men;
Believed the Bible. Backslid? Oh,
Some fellahs sometimes did, I know,
But got religion back again
As soon as they was feelin' low.

What was it I was goin' to say
About the things of yesterday?
Well honest, neighbor, I don't know:
When I git reminiscin' so
I sort of wander far away
Along the path of long ago.

And when you git as old as me
Then just as fair a memory
These days will seem to you, I know:
I guess it always will be so;
For life to look its best to be
It must be years and years ago.





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