Lake Fork Verne — Then And Now

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Then and Now
 by:  Verne Garrison, Valley Park, Mo June 28, 2007
Then and Now

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Long ago, when I was small
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Before computers and TV
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We made it with hardly anything at all
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How we did, is hard for me to see

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We had coal oil lights and heating stoves
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Lanterns and hand pumped water wells
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Stacked firewood in long, long rows
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It was not easy I am here to tell

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And when you were sick
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The doctor came to see you
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Most people couldnt get to town
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So the town came to you

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We had the huckster man every few days
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Brought candy, coal-oil, cough syrup and shoe strings
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A few farm fresh eggs paid our way
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So we did get some extra things

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Some pine for the good ole days
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I have lived both then and now
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Considering all in I say
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The good ole days are right now