The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #21647   Message #2764250
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
11-Nov-09 - 02:00 PM
Thread Name: ADD: A Shropshire Lad (poem by John Betjeman)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A Shropshire Lad (John Betjeman)
Alternatively, there's a temperance meeting in the Congregational Hall on a Saturday night. A lass is singing a hynn. Temperance drinks are available. And who should turn up but the ghost of Captain Webb, rising out the canal outside next to the railway line, wafting up past the astonished rows of people, and vanishing through the wall...