POETRY CORNER

[Stanley]

I thought we had a topic for poetry but if we have I can't find it so I have started one.
Is your brain ever attacked by a fragment of poetry that becomes one of Wendy's ear worms? Mine is and I have one today that is nagging me and I can't find a source for it. Here it si.

Today's my daughter's wedding day, ten thousand pounds I'll give away.
Hurrah Hurrah Hurrah.

On second thoughts, I think it best, to stow it away in the old oak chest.
(chorus) You dirty rotten B****rd!

Has anyone else heard it or has any idea where it came from.....

[PanBiker]

It's in other hobbies and interests on the home page.

Other Hobbies and Interests

[Big Kev]

I thought we had a topic for poetry but if we have I can't find it so I have started one.
Is your brain ever attacked by a fragment of poetry that becomes one of Wendy's ear worms? Mine is and I have one today that is nagging me and I can't find a source for it. Here it si.

Today's my daughter's wedding day, ten thousand pounds I'll give away.
Hurrah Hurrah Hurrah.

On second thoughts, I think it best, to stow it away in the old oak chest.
(chorus) You dirty rotten B****rd!

Has anyone else heard it or has any idea where it came from.....

Landlady's Daughter https://share.google/4w7ULneBxuyqJKPUP

[Tripps]

Thanks for the link Kev. I've just had a nice hour or so surfing round.

I'd heard a version of the poem, buy can't remember where it came from. I associate it with the army somehow - it's the kind of thing you might hear spontaneously from a drinking companion. I guess it's quite old.


Please don't delete the thread - better to have two such, rather than delete this one. No one will notice.

Current;y I keep going back to this. . . .l

[Stanley]

That was quite splendid David..... Thank you.

[PanBiker]

I will move the topic into the existing Poetry category.

[Stanley]

Thanks Ian!
Here's part of the sound track of my youth.... Owen Brannigan accompanied by Ernest Lush singing 'On the Road to Mandalay'.