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Thread #7782   Message #2391931
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
18-Jul-08 - 06:10 AM
Thread Name: Alternative words for the Wild Rover??
Subject: Lyr Add: Alternative words for the Wild Rover??
The following is topical as there is talk of a new version of "The Prisoner" being made with Jim Caviezel as No6 & Ian McCellan as No2.

WHITE ROVER
Words Peter Dunn

I've been a White Rover for many's a year
And I've made ev'ry number a-tremble with fear.
But my workload's increasing, (It's made me quite sick)
Ever since the arrival of that damn Number Six.

    And it's no, nay, never. No, nay, never no more
    Will I play a White Rover, no never, no more.

I roared & I wailed as I bounced down the beach.
No running number was safe from my reach.
You'd thnk that would stop him, you'd think he'd give in.
But that damn Number Six was determined to win.

    And it's no, nay, never. No, nay, never no more
    Will I play a White Rover, no never, no more.

You wouldn't like it, if you were like me,
A six-foot balloon with no vocab'lary.
Constantly bearing a great fear within.
That that damned Number Six would appear with a pin.

    And it's no, nay, never. No, nay, never no more
    Will I play a White Rover, no never, no more.

With Fall Out the series it came to an end,
And a film called Dark Star did my agent me send.
I'm sure I was typecast, it just wasn't fair.
The part was an alien ball filled with air.

    And it's no, nay, never. No, nay, never no more
    Will I play a White Rover, no never, no more.

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Sourced from "The NICon Files" a brief song sheet from a Northern Irish science fiction convention of several years ago. NP