I’ve heard a bit of moaning from the young and from the old
To the young we are a burden too heavy to behold.
They look at all our holidays and houses fully paid
With pensions so enormous that they ought to be assayed!
The older generation claim they’ve earned all they have got
And when they started out they had to scrimp and save a lot.
They didn’t have the luxuries the youngsters want by right
And to pay their mortgages they worked both day and night!
What a load of nonsense being talked by old and young
Not to speak too bluntly it is a load of dung!
True we didn’t have the things that hadn’t been invented
And for meagre wages we might have been indented
But we had full employment throughout our working lives
And low cost homes existed (though some of them were dives).
Yes the interest rates were high but we could afford the price
With the cost of houses now it isn’t quite so nice!
We slowly climbed the ladder on the back of parent’s graft
And the older generation thought our fashions daft!
They thought our music rubbish and our dances were absurd
And they thought our children should be seen and never heard!
I’m as guilty as the next of hating innovation
And blaming all our problems on the younger generation.
But in my heart of hearts I know I should not make a fuss
The mess the modern world is in was because of us!
We voted politicians in who killed the welfare state
And for our free health service it’s getting rather late !
All the things our kids must face we have left behind
And if they seem to moan a bit we really shouldn’t mind.
In our youth we blamed the ones who lived their lives before
So when our children do the same we shouldn’t feel so sore!
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