Let me call you sweetheart

Let me call you sweetheart

You may be old and rusty

But you still play that tune to me.

Maybe a little fusty

But very much in key!

I wind you up behind your back,

You play that same old song.

Time and again that same old track

But together we belong.

With you I’d never get bored,

When you call me sweetheart!

Nor would you be ignored

And never would we part.

You are a little grubby

Stuck away in a dark room.

Older and more scruffy

But you lighten up my gloom.

You’d send me off to sleep

From bygone days your lullaby.

My parents bought such a treat!

So I would never say goodbye!

So let me call you sweetheart

I’m in love with you.

Let me hear you whisper

That you love me too.

And Thumper you belong with me,

Behind you is the wind up key;

You’ve been with me since I was three

Unwrapped from the Christmas tree!

Copyright Linda Lawrence

10^th September

For my Mum and Dad