Pinafore Days - Stackridge

Mugs and buttercups the dancing crinoline

Inside a picture book of a sky

The frantic butterflies their colours hypnotise

The crusty baker making his pies

Thieves and scallywags, The mighty morris men

outside a window pane in the sun

A bell strikes One O’clock

Put on your summer frock

The last fandango’s first to be done

I was painting rhymes

Sketching phantoms drawn from the years

Tell me the truth

Where are those Pinafore Days

I knew?

Spats and Gollywogs, Outlandish acrobats

Beside a jumble sale in the wind

The bouncing dicky birds are really lost for words

The copper kettle’s trying to sing

I was painting ruins

Sketching phantoms drawn from the years

Tell me the truth

Where are those Pinafore Days

I knew?