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Thread #44584 Message #664092
Posted By: Steve Parkes
07-Mar-02 - 05:37 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Oh Jack the Ripper
Subject: Lyr Add: JACK THE ZIPPER (Barrie Roberts)
Barrie Roberts (a noted Ripperologist himself, of the James K Steven school) wrote this in the early seventies:
When the shades of night are falling I dons me grubby mac, I takes me flask of coffee And me little sandwich pack; I takes up my position Behind a friendly tree, And when the pretty ladies pass I shows a bit of me. Chorus: And they calls me Jack the Zipper, They calls me Jack the Zipper, They calls me Jack the Zipper 'Cos I zips me little zip!
Some of them, they screams and faints; Some turns pale as clay; Some pretends the did not see, And some they runs away: But when I am quite certain They've had their little see, I zips me zipper up again And back behind me tree.
It was on one summer's evening At the closing of the day, When a quite delightful lady Came a-sauntering my way. She wore a skin-tight sweater And a min-skirt so cute, But what sprang me to attention Was her thigh-length kinky boots!
I steeped out from behind me tree And I zipped me little zip, But before I could retreat again She grasped me in her grip. She flung me to the ground And, with a dreadful chortling laugh, She took from her bag a razor blade And snipped me zip in half!
She stood beside me in the dock Before the magistrate, Who said to us, "Me fine young friends, You're in a sorry state!" For possessing offensive weapons We both got six months each, But I got a little bit extra-- Bound over to keep the piece!
Not very pc, even for those days, and as for kinky boots--! Tune is "Early in the morning".