Elastics from Hindsight by Roy Møller
On the adoption agency form, Carol gave her address as Dean Park Crescent, whose drab and draughty subdivided temporary lets must have felt dingy to her compared to her apartment near the University of Toronto.
Milk was delivered by horse-drawn cart at 6.30 am. I imagine my pregnant mother's thoughts as she heard the kids playing in the yard of the nearby Flora Stevenson’s School. The chant "She is handsome, she is pretty, she is the queen of the Golden City" accompanies a game in which children join hands to form a ring with one girl or boy in the centre.
Tracklist
| 3. | Elastics | 2:35 |
Lyrics
Milk delivery, clip clop on cobbles
Thieved of a long lie
Bish, bash, bosh of bottles
Long before seven guesthouse wakes
Come eleven playground playground shakes
Playground shakes
Elastics , elastics, elastics, echoing
Pat-a-cake girls, pigtails fly,
Shoo away stray boys, you catch each cry
Soon comes the day this all fades away
Kids out to play echoing
Pale and freckled
Spindle legs of girls and boys
Stray sunbeams, what a shrill noise
You know the drill when the bells rings
She is handsome, she is pretty,
she is the queen of the golden city
Elastics, hopscotch elastics,
Pat-a cake elastics echoing
Credits
Roy Moller - guitar, keyboard
Stevie Walker - horns, percussion
