Old Dasher Joe

To the locals he is known as Old Dasher Joe
Since he always talks of the days long ago
When he was the champion athlete of the town
He used to run fast when his hair was light brown

In the local pub with a few beers in
He talks of the big races that he did win
In his prime never found to be wanting when put to the test
At eight hundred metres he was the town's best

His eight decades of living on him does show
The legs that did run fast are now walking slow
Twelve times a great grandad divorced from his wife
His memories are all he has left in his life

Just one more old bloke in his prime a great name
He is not the only one to have outlived his fame
It is only in memory nowadays against the best he compete
He is the oldest and slowest living on his street

On Saturday at the pub he talks of the past
In the long gone years when his legs did move fast
But this is going back half a century or so
And time it has caught up on Old Dasher Joe.