Like Mavis The Dancer Poem by Francis Duggan

Some people seem to get better like the taste of good wine
And even in old age they look and feel fine
And like 'tis said of age it can only be a state of mind
And in an ageing person one young at heart you can find
Like Mavis the Dancer she is eighty three
Don't tell her she's old with you she won't agree
She is happy and cheerful and bubbly and bright
And at the bowling club rooms on saturday she dances all night
The praises of Mavis they ought to be sung
Her hair silver grey but in her heart she feels young
Her great grand-children teenagers her husband dead for years
But for the past she does not have any tears
At the bowling club rooms she does dance and sing
She does make a case for age is a relative thing