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Thread #113072   Message #4130162
Posted By: GUEST
27-Dec-21 - 07:58 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: On a Slow Boat to China (and parody)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: On a Slow Boat to China (and parody)
(Bad taste warning)

"I'd love to put you in a row boat to China
All by yourself alone
Rotted to the core and only got one oar
Loaded with a few tons of stone or more
When it goes down, then you'll surely drown
Too far to swim for the shore
I'd like to put you on a row boat to China
Farewell to my Mother-in-Law"

Got this many years ago from a Korean War veteran who heard it while on active service, back when paying out on Mothers-in-Law was acceptable humour, unless of course you happened to be one! Probably written for a camp entertainment show.

There was another verse about a "... plane to China...", but I can't read it as it is faded badly. Lucky the above verse survived...or maybe not!