In an Old Fashioned Picture Book

[Verse 1]

Come take a look with me

In an old fashioned picture book

Patience, the girl we see

On the sand with a squint and her parasol look

Sweethearts are sewn 'tween the cloth of her cuff

A shell in her little tight hand

Soon she'll be going away

With her bottle of sand tomorrow

From the shores of yesterday

[Verse 2]

Come see her move and be

In our old fashioned backward look

Just like an old movie

Talking and real like when it was took

Bats, balls and tomboys cheeky and gruff

Faint sounds of a distant brass band

Who rides the donkey today?

Will our visions of tomorrow

Mingle with those of yesterday?

[Verse 3]

Come, close your eyes and hear

Melodies from an old music box

Tinkling as tandems and tears

Go tumbling like tresses and small perfumed locks

Sweet dreams were sewn 'tween the heres of her life

A tear in her little kerchief

Waving and fading away

With her bottled sand tomorrow

From the shores of yesterday

Will our visions of tomorrow mingle

With those of yesterday?

[Outro]

Come take a look with me

In an old fashioned picture book