Fifty+years+ago+today

Fifty years ago today - we made our vows I was picked up, I was blown away I can still feel it now See that photo over there - see his shoulders broad see his easy grace You know I sometimes still sit and stare - see that loosened curl falling down his face And there am I - don't I look so young and thin So new and so excited - he's the only man, I've ever let down underneath my skin

Times were different then - you couldn't understand What it was to be a woman then - or to be a man Because I put on that diamond ring, I could not be employed I said my farewells to all the girls, in the office down at Messrs Lang and Boyd And there we were, suddenly just me and him ... As I felt life blooming deep down underneath my skin

We left the city for the farm - a farmer's wife I'd be Drove 5 hours through the rain - cried farewell to my family

And there we were