Song Challenge-The Shrine in the alley

Subject: Song Challenge-The Shrine in the alley
From: Flash Company
Date: 25 Oct 05 - 06:59 AM

There hasn't been anything in the papers to make me laugh for weeks, then today I get a real lu-lu.
Police in Liverpool found what they took to be an aborted foetus in a back street, which they 'bagged & tagged', and presumably put up one of their 'Can you help?' notices.
Within hours, flowers, Teddy Bears, loving messages, etc began to appear on the site, with appeals for the mother to come forward.
Next day after forensic tests the police announced that the 'foetus' was, in fact, ........... a chicken,
Fowl play is not suspected.... Go for it cats!
FC

Subject: RE: Song Challenge-The Shrine in the alley
From: GUEST,vorblesnak
Date: 25 Oct 05 - 01:04 PM

Twas a cold October day
When they found the body there,
With the trash in the dustbin by the door.
No one could bear to look
As they bagged it for the Bailey,
A newborn cold and dead upon the floor.

(Chorus)
There's a shrine in the alley
Where the people come to cry,
There's a shrine in the alley
Where they pray, why did it die?
We could have saved the family
Our compassion's not a lie.
There's a shrine in the alley
Where the people come to cry.

The tiny soul was carried
To the hospital with care,
So the surgeons could examine and confer.
As the Bobbies stood there waiting
From the doctors came a cry,
Tis a chicken you have brought to disinter!

(Chorus)
There's a shrine in the alley
Where the people come to cry,
There's a shrine in the alley
Where they pray, why did it die?
We could have saved the family,
Our compassion's not a lie.
There's a shrine in the alley
Where the people come to cry.

The teddy bears and candles,
All the flowers went away,
Red faces hide behind the bolted doors.
But tears of loss are somewhere
Sunday dinner went awry,
When the chicken in the dustbin was no more.

(Chorus)
There's a shrine in the alley
Where the people come to cry,
There's a shrine in the alley
Where they pray, why did it die?
We could have saved the family,
Our compassion's not a lie.
There's a shrine in the alley
Where the people come to cry.