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.....
Re: POETRY CORNER
Posted: 18 Dec 2025, 11:46
by PanBiker
It's in other hobbies and interests on the home page.
Stanley wrote: ↑18 Dec 2025, 04:36
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.....
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
Re: POETRY CORNER
Posted: 18 Dec 2025, 15:58
by Stanley
That was quite splendid David..... Thank you.
Re: POETRY CORNER
Posted: 18 Dec 2025, 16:28
by PanBiker
I will move the topic into the existing Poetry category.
Re: POETRY CORNER
Posted: 19 Dec 2025, 02:02
by 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'.
I guess it's quite old. 