JUST PRETEND by: Man of Asgard

Have you ever sailed across dry land
With a wooden leg and a hook for a hand,
All dressed in red with a patch on your eye
And a crew of thugs who could say Aye! Aye?
Have you ever played such a game, my friend,
On a pirate's ship made of just pretend.

Did you ever go on a long, long trip
To the milky way in a rocket ship
And fly to the dark side of the moon
Or actually see a Venusian loon?
Did you ever imagine you could fly through space
In your own back yard's pretending place?

I have trekked Alaska's highest peak.
I have swam with mermaids in the deep.
I've hunted bison on the plain,
Flown kites with Franklin in the rain.
There is nothing I cannot achieve
When I play my game of make believe.

I wonder lad, and little miss
If you've ever played such games as this,
From a favorite place in your house or yard
Have you ever marched like a castle guard.
Or danced like a ballerina queen
Or sank a foreign submarine.

Or have you now grown past the age
Where your own front porch is a magic stage
Where the grass is a sea with a breaking wave
And your crew are drowning in a watery grave
But with wooden boat and a plank for an oar
You carry them safely to the shore.

I pray I never ever grow
so old to know such things aren't so
I pray I always will attend
the things that come from Just Pretend
I still play now at sixty-three
It's keep alive a fool like me.

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