Lyrics In an Old Fashioned Picture Book - Donovan

In an Old Fashioned Picture Book

Come take a look with me in an old fashioned picture book
Patience, the girl we see on the sand with the squint and parasol low
Sweethearts are sewn 'tween the cloth of her cuff
A shell in her little tight hand;
soon she’ll be going away
With her bottle of sand tomorrow from the shores of yesterday
Come see her move and be in our old fashioned backward look
Just like an old movie, talking and real like when it was took
Bats, balls and Tomboys, cheeky and gruff
Faint sounds of a distant brass band, who rides the donkey today
Will our visions of tomorrow mingle with those of yesterday?
Come, close your eyes and hear melodies from an old music box
Tinkling as tandems and tears go tumbling like tresses and small perfumed locks
Sweet dreams were sewn 'tween the years of her life
A tear in her little kerchief, waving and fading away
With her ottled sand tomorrow, from thnbe shores of yesterday
Will her visions of tomorrow mingle with those of yesterday?
Come take a look with me in an old fashioned picture book