G'day Gerry,

Well, here's the shell of the late-lamented John Dengate's 1998 epic. (Lifted off the Union Songs Site.)

I CAN'T ABIDE
A song by John Dengate ©John Dengate 1998
Tune: Abide With Me

I can't abide the government's front bench,
Send them away to the Germans or the French.
I can't abide Costello's shallow sneer -
Won't someone make the bastard disappear?

I can't abide that bloody awful Kemp,
Bring back the gallows, the hangman and the hemp.
Take Peter Reith and dump him in the tide.
Him I particularly can't abide!

Poor little John deserves our sympathy,
Born neath the star of mediocrity ...
Pat his wee head and send him off to bed,
Then hide the key lest he abide with me!

I can't abide the government's ministry,
Senator Vanstone's worse than dysentry!
Send her away without the least delay
- dont pour the tea lest she abide with me.

Sink them the swine, an iceberg would be fine.
Far, far away in distant Hudson Bay.
As they go down they'll warble while they drown,
Flat and off-key, they'll be despised by me.

I can't abide the government's front bench,
Send them away to the Germans or the French.
Take Peter Reith and dump him in the tide.
Him I particularly can't abide.

I'm afraid we are going to have to gird our loins ... and get stuck into this nozious lot ... jaut as John would have done!!!!

Regard(les)s,

Bob Bolton