Old Enough

Old enough to hold a car and truck licence and old enough to vote And old enough to have a gun licence and operate a small fishing boat And old enough to recognize an apple from a quince Yet not old enough to be blessed with much sense On saturday at the football club involved in a fight And on sunday morning he looked quite a sight Wearing dark glasses his face bruised black and blue What he received it was only his due Twenty five years in the prime of his life With a lovely young son and daughter and a beautiful wife One might think in life he has much to be happy about But with a few beers in he shoots off his mouth For our lessons in life always some price to pay Maybe he ought to give liquor away.