THOSE WERE THE DAYS
Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way
La la la la
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days
(Songwriters: Boris Fomin and Gene Raskin)
Listen to the song here by Robert Goulet... it was a #1 Song for Mary Hopkin produced by Paul McCartney in 1968... I am an old retired disc jockey and prefer Goulet's version... it has a better feel of getting together with old friends and celebrating the good old days than Mary Hopkin's version... there is a joy in the song about the good old days, but there is also sadness, that times have changed, people have gone their own way, and the good old days will never be again... actually, we shouldn't live in the past... today is the best time of your life and you should celebrate it no matter what life has given you... today is a day our Creator has made... regardless of our circumstances, we all should rejoice and be glad in it... today is the first day of the rest of our lives... let's rejoice and enjoy it.
I still miss the good old days, my friend... but they are gone forever... but like the song it can be brought back for a short time... the familiar laughter in the last verse means we can still get together and reminisce and enjoy each other's company for old times' sake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozwOqIMAPxk
Ah, the good old golden days of 1955... sadly for most of us they did end... but the good old days still live on the pristine white beaches of South Island, situated on the beautiful blue waters of Terrebonne Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
South Island is a little place that time has forgotten and the the passing decades cannot improve... where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and can hit a curve ball... and all the kids are above average... it's a wonderful place to enjoy life and raise a family... and it's the home of the South Island League.
Keeler Garrison is the South Island League organizer... he and all of his high school buddies made sure the good old days of yore would live on... baseball was their great love... they had played it together on the sandlots and playgrounds of South Island, in grammar school, junior high and high school... some of them went on to go to college where most of them weren't good enough to play... returning home to South Island and family and friends, they needed something to do to fill the long, hot days of summer... they decided to do it with the South Island Recreation League.
1955 is the inaugural season the South Island League.
There are 12 small towns on the Island... Garrison proposed a recreational baseball league with one team in each town... every Sunday afternoon the old-timers would go at it again on the diamond just for the sheer fun and joy of playing the great American Pastime... not for money, not for the old high school, but just purely for the love of the game... old school rivalries would be revived, relived and refought again... there would be two leagues, the South Island Supreme League and South Island Secondary League, with six teams each and a 10-game schedule... each season at the end of play, the bottom team in the Supreme League would be demoted or relegated to the Secondary League and the best team in the Secondary League would be promoted to the Supreme League... I know I should pick better names for the two leagues, something that indicated the premier league and the secondary league, but that would have meant I would need new league logos, and to be honest, I am tired of trying to get graphics done... so I just used what I found on the OOTP Mods Forum for the 12 teams.. it has gotten really hard to get anyone to do graphics anymore... but I found some very good ones and they are mighty darn good... txranger did the gorgeous Supreme League logo and I did the Secondary League logo... I got lucky with the Secondary League logo and it came out fairly well, too.
(Special thanks to Garrison Keiller and the Prairie Home Companion for some great lines that I stole from them)