Remember when HIPPIE meant big in the hips

And a TRIP involved travel, in cars , planes and ships?

When POT was a vessel for cooking things in

And HOOKED was what grandmother's rug might have been?

When FIX was a verb that meant mend or repair

And BE IN meant simply existing somewhere?

When NEAT meant well-organised, tidy and clean

And GRASS was a ground cover, normally green

When lights and not people were TURNED ON and off

And the PILL might have been what you took for a cough!

And CAMP meant to quarter out-doors in a tent

And POP was the way that the weasel went? 

When GROOVY meant furrowed with channels and hollows,

And BIRDS were winged creatures like FINCHES and SWALLOWS?

When FUZZ was a substance that's fluffy like lint,

And BREAD came from bakeries, not from the mint?

When SQUARE meant a 90-degree angled form

And COOL was a temperature not quite so warm? 

When ROLL meant a bun, and ROCK was a stone,

And HANG_UP as something you did to the phone?

When FUZZ was a substance that's fluffy like lint,

And BREAD came from bakeries, not from the mint?

When SQUARE meant a 90-degree angled form

And COOL was a temperature not quite so warm? 

When ROLL meant a bun, and ROCK was a stone,

And HANG_UP was something you did to a phone?

When JAM was conserves that you spread on your bread

And CRAZY meant barmy, not right in the head?

When CAT was a feline - a kitten grownup

And TEA was a liquid you drank from a cup?

When SWINGER was someone who swung in a swing

And PAD was a soft sort of cushiony thing?

When WAY OUT meant distant and far, far away?

And a man couldn't sue you for calling him GAY

When DIG meant to shovel and spade in the dirt

And PUT-ON was something you did with a shirt?

When TOUGH described meat too unyielding to chew

And MAKING A SCENE was a rude thing to do?

Words once so sensible, sober and serious

Are making the FREAK SCENE quite PSYCHEDELIIOUS

It's GROOVY MAN GROOVY But English it's not

Me thinks that our language has gone straight to POT….