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Thread #134892   Message #3072094
Posted By: GUEST
11-Jan-11 - 09:41 AM
Thread Name: lets rewrite folksongs with happy ending
Subject: RE: lets rewrite folksongs with happy ending
Yes, I can hear Banks of Red Roses

So he took out his pen knife, it was both long and sharp
and he plunged it right into his own poor Mary's heart
But lucky they were next to a top knotch hospital
And Mary's now doing well, and Johnny's gang to jail...

And it being Sweedan, he's soon to be reformed
And will stop killing girl friends and leaving us forelorn
Yes he'll stop knifing sweathearts, he now knows it is wrong
And poor ol' Alan Whittle will have his happy song

ah... and the inspiration of all this...

to the tune of Banna Strand...

Sir Rodger survied the hanging in dreay london town
He dropped on Old Victoria and broke her bloody crown
So she freed the Irish nation, invited us to tea
She and Rodger took a holliday all on the Irish sea.

And by the way the british fireing squad missed Connolly and all
Just like our Cousin Rodger, who missed that dreadful fall
Michael Collens had a hat band made of the finest steel
The Titanic sank the iceburg, and Obama's change is real.

(Sorry... YES, I DID vote for the bugger)