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Down The Park (Kicking It! )

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Kicking it up against the wall

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Kicking it up against the wall

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Pass the ball games in our street

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 Knock out ginger, time for tea.

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 Running madly after dark

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 Playing football in the park.

7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 Kicking it up against the wall

8 Leave a comment on verse 8 0 Kicking it up against the wall

9 Leave a comment on verse 9 0 Mind your manners, thank you, please,

10 Leave a comment on verse 10 0 Charge about with scabby knees

11 Leave a comment on verse 11 0 When I’m big I’ll own a car

12 Leave a comment on verse 12 0 Swerve and score like Bobby Moore.

13 Leave a comment on verse 13 0 Kicking it up against the wall

14 Leave a comment on verse 14 0 Kicking it up against the wall

15 Leave a comment on verse 15 0 Touch, you’re it, can’t catch me

16 Leave a comment on verse 16 0 British bulldog, climbing trees

17 Leave a comment on verse 17 0 Be a Man. U. football star

18 Leave a comment on verse 18 0 Wanna be a footballer.

19 Leave a comment on verse 19 0 Kicking it up against a wall

20 Leave a comment on verse 20 0 Kicking it up against a wall

21 Leave a comment on verse 21 0 On me ‘ead, quick pass to me

22 Leave a comment on verse 22 0 You’re a rubbish referee

23 Leave a comment on verse 23 0 Coats for goalposts it’s a lark

24 Leave a comment on verse 24 0 Playing football in the park.

25 Leave a comment on verse 25 0 Kicking it up against a wall

26 Leave a comment on verse 26 0 Kicking it up against a wall.

Notes

I wrote the following poem about my experiences as a girl growing up in the 60s, kicking footballs down the park with my brother and our mates.

That was in the days when Mum’s would open the backdoor and say: ‘Go on. Off you go outside and play.’ And we’d be off down the park, in the woods, playing in the streets, back again in time for tea, then out to play until bedtime.

Source: https://footballpoets.org/poems/down-the-park-kicking-it/