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We are the Village Green Preservation Society
God save Donald Duck, Vaudeville and Variety
We are the Desperate Dan Appreciation Society
God save strawberry jam and all the different varieties
Preserving the old ways from being abused
Protecting the new ways for me and for you
What more can we do?
We are the Draught Beer Preservation Society
God save Mrs. Mopp and good Old Mother Riley
We are the Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium
God save the George Cross and all those who were awarded them
We are the Sherlock Holmes English Speaking Vernacular
Help save Fu Manchu, Moriarty and Dracula
We are the Office Block Persecution Affinity
God save little shops, china cups and virginity
We are the Skyscraper condemnation Affiliate
God save tudor houses, antique tables and billiards
Preserving the old ways from being abused
Protecting the new ways for me and for you
What more can we do?
God save the Village Green.

Ray Davis
The Kinks 1968

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I have walked in LA, San Francisco, New York, Toronto, Paris, London.
I have seen the Grand Canyon from both rims, the Painted Desert, Yellowstone, the prairie, Yosemite, 1500 year old sequoia trees, waded in the Atlantic and the Pacific, spent a summer on an island in the Caribbean and another in the Rocky Mountains, driven across the continent three or four times, eaten a bowl of chili within sight of the Alamo, seen where Judge Roy Bean provided his own brand of law, walked the battlefields at Antietam and Gettysburg and Harper's Ferry.
I've met Senators and had a beer with a man who walked on the Moon.
But the most perfect moment of happiness in my life was drinking a cup of coffee at the table in my sister's back yard and chatting with her, early on a sunny, cool morning.

(Hmm. That could almost be a poem itself. :D )