My Big Sister

Bee hive hair do
Short mini skirt
Thick black mascara
shiny, pointy shoes

Excitement on Friday night
Girls in threes and twos
Boys in winkle pickers
Brylcream, Elvis hair do’s

All are hard and tender
Excitement at the Locarno
Motor bike and fender
Rock, guitars and gusto

Disapproval from our grannies
Laughs and sizing up
A stolen kiss and fumbles
Beer from a cracked cup

Handbags in the middle
Boys prop up the wall
Girls dance in a circle
Time to make the call

Scraps without a warning
Boots and fists are flying
Screams and girls are running
Boys in groups are scrumming

Motor bikes and Vespas
Greaser looks and smartness
Leather coats and Parkas
Deadly cool and heartless

Sister knows what she's doing
Back home to her mother
Get the bus she’s going
See here little brother