The Class of Fifty Seven

The Class of Fifty Seven

Back for summertime vacations

Paid for Confirmations made

Last year's Debs

Or school reunions

With the shovel and the spade.

The whole schoolyard assembled

With the writing on the wall

The class of fifty seven

And the boat train called.

Danced round tunes

Played on a sunday

Whiskey talk of going home

On the streets off

Kilburn High Road

Cricklewood

Or Camden Town.

The mission fields of Asia

The States, the sessions

And the craic,

The ones who made it famous

The ones who never made it back.

Photograph: Euston Station London.

The arrival point for

many of the emigrants

who left Ireland.