Sweethearts For a Day
Come sing a song of memory - That time we sat beneath a tree And you asked, "will you marry me?" So I replied, all properly, "You'll have to wait and see." I gifted you my ten-cent ring, And you gave me a rusty spring. And then you pushed me in the swing We'd made with boards and bits of string. It was the grandest thing! We wandered happily all day - Our clothing daubed with wet and clay - We set our active minds astray And drifted far and far away To a joyful land of play. The brilliant noon-time slowly passed To evening shadows creeping fast. We joined our hands, went home at last, Forgetting quite, in joys amassed, The question you had asked.