The Spirit of Yesterday

She was a singer
And a guitar player,
And she knew
Nearly every song
We had ever heard.
For three solid hours
She played and sang
And we sang along.
They were old melodies
That we knew by heart
But many of which
We hadn’t heard
For maybe ten years or more.
There were tunes
From the sixties and seventies.
There were songs by
Peter, Paul and Mary,
Paul Simons,
Art Garfunkel,
Neil Diamond,
The Beatles
And many others.
We sang
“Puff the Magic Dragon,”
“Lemon Tree,”
“House of the Rising Sun,”
“Wichita Lineman,”
“The Green, Green Grass of Home,”
“Yellow Submarine,”
“Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”
Music of an era gone by,
Songs that we loved
That brought back memories
Sweetened by time
And the benefit of forgetting
What it was really like
Way back then.
We had a blast!