The powers that be have changed our lives,
The tables learnt at school
Are not one bit of use to us
They've broken every rule.
Twelve inches now don't make a foot
I really have to laugh
For when I buy a pair of shoes
I'm forty and a half.
Our Fahrenheit is Centigrade
My brains a confused state
Remembering 20.30 hours
Instead of half past eight.
My recipes weigh out in grammes,
And liquids are in litres,
And if I want to make a dress
I buy the cloth in metres.
But this, the weirdest change of all,
I really cannot trust,
Instead of medium 38
I'M NINETY SEVEN BUST "
