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Thread #109741 Message #2307956
Posted By: Melissa
05-Apr-08 - 11:09 PM
Thread Name: Does anyone know the song 'Conkers'
Subject: RE: Does anyone know the song 'Conkers'
I looked at a few playground game sites..no luck. Saying "Conker, take 1" would amuse me a lot too. Here's the best I could come up with.
***** http://www.mldb.org/song-169904-virgin.html
And I think that I wish I was virgin And I smile and I think of you And my first, very first entry Clumsy and romantic My special mix in you Clumsy like the first step Clumsy like the first conker off the tree And romantic, like the wind that cuts your hair And romantic, like the glass that holds your drink Clumsy and romantic My special mix in you
And I think that I wish I was young And I smile and I think of you And my first, very first true kiss Defensive and so coy Defensive like the jacket that holds your weight Defensive like the hat that holds you hair And coy like the first kiss, the kiss that first made you coy And coy like the tears, the tears that made you coy So gentle, so gentle it made you strong It made you strong, like the first kiss Clumsy and romantic, so gentle it made you strong Clumsy and romantic, the kiss that made you strong **** A Life in Pictures: The Conker Tree
When I last walked down this lane I was just a boy, The puddles were much deeper then, The muddy water splashing With adventure And a drowned mouse Beyond all our attempts at revival. The blossom and the scent of wet nettles Have caught me now, But then it was the stingers and the frantic search For dock leaves, to stop the hurt.
And finally the conker tree where Peter fell. The biggest ones are at the top He always said. He was the best of us at climbing But then the crash of falling branches, Leaf and conker cascading on his broken Young body, in the lane.
The ambulance came with just a bell jangling And on a bike, a policeman Looking stern, writing names down Seeing we were all OK... Except Peter.
So I'm walking down the lane after fifty years But Peter isn't here, just the same conker tree Which somehow seems much larger And I feel lonely Just thinking of the fifty years he missed And all for conkers, Which were never any bigger at the top.
Footnote
Conker = horse chestnut This poem is about the loss of a childhood friend and also about the loss of childhood.
Patrick Ladbrooke http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-life-in-pictures-the-conker-tree/