A Perfect Picture of Jean

Born and raised a Yorkshire girl
Whiling away the hours
Hitching a ride on the milk round
Picking and selling wildflowers
Then out of the school yard and straight off to work
I was only fourteen years old
If only I could’ve known back then
What wonders my life would behold

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All these precious moments building a perfect picture of me
And it’s everything that I could ever have hoped to be

At weekends frequenting the dance halls
‘Til one night, the stars all aligned
The noise and commotion fell in to slow motion
When, across the room, his eyes met mine
Carl and I swaying the evening away
Falling for each others charms
Then walking out together
To a future in each others arms

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At twenty we wed on a midsummers day
And in Scarborough our honeymoon spent
And many vacations thereafter
To the Yorkshire coast we went
And the thing above all that I longed for
The one thing I hoped to become
Soon would come to fruition
When I gained the title of ‘mum’
So I sit here now much older
And I look back on all I recall
Though details aren’t clear and the words disappear
I still know that I had it all
The children, the grandkids, the cruises abroad,
The bingo, the garden, the friends
And Carl, though I lost him some years ago
I’ll carry that love to the end

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I may not have changed the world
And my life’s not been anything extroadinary
But I’ve been everything that I ever wanted to be