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Thread #134892   Message #3072154
Posted By: Bob the Postman
11-Jan-11 - 11:03 AM
Thread Name: lets rewrite folksongs with happy ending
Subject: RE: lets rewrite folksongs with happy ending
Here's my ending for Claudy Banks:

But when I had disclosed myself
She threw a hissy fit.
She threw her fist into my nose,
Saying, "Johnny, you're a shit.
You seem to think it funny
To mess around my head.
I wouldn't marry you
If every man on earth were dead."

And when I heard this dreadful news
I said, "Fiddle-dee-dee.
There's many a change worked on a chap
By seven years at sea.
I am an altered young man
And so I wish you joy,
'Cause as for me I'd rather wed
A handsome cabin boy."