Once Upon A Time: Let's fly back to before. / Before I needed or wanted / To grow up. Back to the days / I wandered Black Mountain, / Ran free in the bog meadows / / Then they put me in school / Wasted my time, should have left / Me to run free, all of my life / Shaped by moments spent contented, / And free on hillside, and meadow / Flying down along this memory lane / I cant forget people, and places / / Especially holiday months spent / Joyfully on farms, school days, terror / Filled times eager to read, and write. / Ignored, had to count, multiple, divide. / All such mysterious ways should have / Left me to run free on hillside, and meadow / / Boy scouts, Clonard Confraternity, saving grace. / Mc Cances glen sparkling wild, / Roaring waters running through. / Falling in, getting dragged out, / Soaked to the skin. / Walking homewards elated, simple times. / Should have left me too run free. / / Never wanted to grow up though I did. / Accepted responsibility didn't do too bad / Didn't do to good all in all / Did the best I could. / Raised a family of three, / My wife Geraldine, and me / Should have left me to run free on / Hillside and meadow.
