Name: Every Generation Has Its Girl From Ipanema
Duration: P00H04M46S
Description: As men get older, girls and women stay young and beautiful. That's a nostalgic fact.

Every Generation Has Its Girl From Ipanema

from The Tales Of Grimmer Pardon by Paul Gerard Dalton

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As men get older, girls and women stay young and beautiful. That's a nostalgic fact.

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I remember when I was twenty
lifting the sand and sifting it gently
through my fingers and over my pulsing skin
This girl came gliding like a shimmering image
I blinked convinced she was a mirage
As she got closer the sun began to spin

I called to her to come and sit beside me
She never looked my way not even to deride me
She walked on by with the wind kissing her hair
The sand could have swallowed her as I whispered "Ah"
I would have followed her no matter how far
and dug till my fingers bled for one so rare

Every generation has its girl from Ipanema
Every boy that sees her couldn't get no keener
While the guys are getting fatter this girl is staying leaner
The men are getting older
she's still the girl from Ipanema.

I remember when I was thirty
thinking 'bout the time when I was twenty
seeing some girl walking down the avenue
Tall and lovely and young and slender
like a knight I would have vowed to defend her
But she just kept on walking out of view.

Every generation etc.

Every summer you will see them
on the stairs and on the beaches
all the girls from Ipanema
fall in love and leave you speechless

I remember when I was forty
seeing my girl so young and haughty
chin held high as she walked along the shore
She reached to touch and refresh the water
I looked with pride at my beautiful daughter
as she frolicked in the froth of the oceans roar

Every generation etc.

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from The Tales Of Grimmer Pardon, released January 1, 2023

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Paul Gerard Dalton London, UK

Singer songwriter, poet, lyricist, anecdotalist, with Irish, Scots and north of England roots. Lives in west London. Recent published poetry 2024, Fielding Memories: Poems and Other Recalls.

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