Hey, I've got a reply for this one! Here it is cut & pasted in true WAV style from the original Walkaboutsverse thread from December 2007 where I posted it under the name Walker-Boots-Vorse (which only makes sense in a Tyneside accent). Anyway...

A NORTHUMBRIAN MIDDLE-SCHOOL EPIPHANY (To be Sung to a Gelinaeu Psalm-Tone)

When I was nine in 1970,
I played Melchior in the school nativity;
I banged a big frame-drum from Bethlehem,
brought back from a Holy Land holiday by Miss Morrison,
who showed me some choice cyclic Arabic rhythms,
that have been with me ever since.

Miss Morrison played upon a shawm,
because she played the English Horn;
though that is only what the Yanks, in their funny way,
call the instrument we Brits know as the Cor Anglais.

From: Walkaboutsverse (Mudcat Thread)
(C) Brian Sedane 2007