New song premiered last night for Tim O'Donovan, about his appearance on TV's "Grand Designs

A GRAND DESIGN
Tune: Villikins and his Dinah
First performance Whitchurch RFC 08/11/2011

Chorus
Sing tooralie ooralie ooralie Ay
We'll sing you a song if you come down our way.
It's only a song of one man and the sea,
But the tale was related on daytime TV.

Tim went down to Tenby to look for a house.
A lovely town for himself and his spouse.
He had his own boat, but nowhere to park it
'Til the old lifeboat station came onto the market.

Chorus
Sing tooralie ooralie ooralie Ay
We'll sing you a song if you come down our way.
It's only a song of one man and the sea,
But the tale was related on daytime TV.

This lovely old building he wanted to buy
A place for his boat, and quite kind on the eye
After One Hundred years with the R.N.L.I
It needed a bit more than just D.I.Y.
Chorus

Materials could not be brought in overland.
And one crane deliv'ry got stuck in the sand.
When building a dwelling with wood or with bricks,
See Matt chapter 7 and verse 26! *
Chorus

Now some of the things that Tim wanted to do,
He couldn't because the site's listed (Grade II)
But it now looks perfect, both colour and line
It's fair now to say that it's a 'Grand Design'.
Chorus

Tim's home now is finished; his dream's become real,
With a cost that's between 'a lot' and 'a great deal'
The sea-view keeps changing, it never gets boring.
So Tim & his wife have now found a great mooring.
Chorus


* The parable of the man who built his house on sand.
                           
                                                                                                                            Nigel Parsons Nov 2011