What is all this fuss about parodies - they have been around since the handwritten word, and possibly before. There is an excellent book published by Faber and Faber, called 'Parodies' and although it parodies literature rather than song, it pokes fun at, and incidentally throws a different insight into the originals, which include such worthies as Pepys, Dickens and Thomas Hardy.

Besides, the late lamented Poet Laureate, Sir John Betjamin himself was a great fan of the parody - look out for a poem called 'We plough the fields and scatter the poison on the land'. If he cannot take himself seriously, why should anyone else??

Liz the Squeak.