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Thread #80872 Message #1477297
Posted By: Micca
03-May-05 - 03:51 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Lord Franklin parody
Subject: Lyr Add: LORD FRANKLIN (parody by Les Barker)
here they are
Lord Franklin Les Barker: "King Charles Spaniel" page 12 ^^ 'Twas homeward bound one night on the deep Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep I dreamed a dream and I thought it true Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew
With a hundred seamen he sailed away To the frozen ocean in the month of May His maps were faulty and his compass bent By mid July he was in Stoke-on-Trent
Through cruel hardships and Watford Gap He saw no icebergs and no polar cap Only the Eskimo in his skin canoe And you don't get many, this far south of Crewe
In Baffin Bay where the whale fish blow The fate of Franklin no man may know The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell But round Northampton they all know him well
And now my burden it gives me pain At Newport Pagnall he got lost again The North West Passage was Lord Franklin's dream He's lost forever deep in Milton Keynes
Yes, lost forever deep in Milton Keynes
Last year on the way to the Getaway to while away a long plane journey, I was thinking that Americans wouldnt understand the Geographical references in Les's text, so I put together a version using American place mnames that would convey the same sense. If anyone is interested I will post them