It's Autumn in New England  capo II
				copyright Wanda C. Metcalf  2012


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I don't like being 80, I really miss my car 
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But almost no one drives now and the village isn't far
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Life isn't what I bargained for when I was thirty five
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But its autumn in New England   and I am still alive




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 I still have almost all my teeth, They don't give me much pain.
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My joints are mostly quiet unless its going to rain
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Some days I cannot  move my hands when they swell up with gout
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Health cares too expensive, so I mostly do without




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It's autumn in New England, We've still got fish and trees.
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Sometimes it still gets cold enough to cause the pond to freeze
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New diseases have evolved, a few have been invented 
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One plague caused  all the crows to die but first they went demented















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It's autumn in New England, so I put on my light coat 
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and hobble to the village hall where women still can vote 
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I'm still allowed to own my house and manage my own cash
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That anyone would question that strikes me  as rather rash
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Haven't seen an mango or a kiwi fruit for  years,
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Things brought in from far away just sort of disappeared
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but I like the plums from New New York and cheese from Free Quebec
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They come in on the barges crates stacked high upon the deck


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It's autumn in NE so I find that quilt you made
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I lay it out upon the bed;  its colors swirl and fade
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One corner has a piece of shirt that once said Grateful Dead
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And I can hear them playing once more  inside my head



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That memory seems so unreal, so weird, so out of place
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When I was young we thought that we could conquer outer space
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We'd flit about in flying cars and feed the human race
Ha!


I don't like being 80, I really miss my car 
But almost no one drives now and the village isn't far
Life isn't what I bargained for when I was thirty five
But its autumn in NE and I am still alive