How well do I remember just fifty years ago,

when girls wore woolen dresses, and boys wore pants of toe,

and shoes were made of cowhide, and socks of home spun wool,

for everything h s changed, so much since fifty years ago.



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Just fifty years ago, just fifty years ago, when the men and

the boys, and the girls and the toys, they work and they paly

in the night and the day, the world and its ways have all turned

round, since fifty years ago.



The people rode to meetin, in sleds instead of sleighs,

and wagons rode as easy as autos no adays,

the oxen team would dart away, though now they be too slow,

for everything has changed so much since fifty years ago



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The girls took music lessons upon the spinning wheel

and practices late and early on spindle swift and reel

the boys would ride the horse to mill a dozen miles or so

and hurry off bofore twas day just fifty years ago,



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