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Thread #126302 Message #2807704
Posted By: Herga Kitty
09-Jan-10 - 03:50 PM
Thread Name: Theresa Tooley/treaties funeral-14 January 2010
Subject: RE: Theresa Tooley/treaties funeral-14 January 2010
I'm not likely to make it from London to Manchester on Thursday, but
here's the shanty I sang for Theresa on the bad shirts and shanty day in the Endeavour at Whitby in 2001, after she won the Saltburn shanty competition:
I'm feeling sad and so forlorn
Sing 'em loud
Can't help the gender I was born
Sing 'em loud
We weedy women high and shrill
Sing 'em loud
Can't compete with Jim or Bill
Sing 'em loud
While they are belting out each word
Sing 'em loud
We women struggle to be heard
Sing 'em loud
But there is one who breaks the rule she
Sings 'em loud
Her name it is Theresa Tooley, she
Sings 'em loud
Kitty