Kilburn 1970: The Class of Fifty Seven!
Quex Road Sundays, the talk outside the church was of going home for the summer. How many of them did I do not know. It was a life of building sites and Undergrounds, the new Victory Line and the music from public houses and houses off side streets. Games played back in Ireland and waiting for the Pubs to open.
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.
Frank Murphy,
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