Yeah Raggy. Mitch wrote some pearlers. I made a small contribution to that one although neither Mitch nor I wrote one of the particular verses in the post Keith just quoted.

Curiously, the first ever time Mitch sang that one outside of Worksop Folk Club was at my first wedding. The song was adopted by a bunch of gay blokes who drank in The Frog and Nightgown. The then landlord had a plaque put up saying Clarence Corner.

Sadly, we both stopped singing it when we realised that the mindset Keith is exhibiting isn't as exclusive as you'd think. Some idiots thought we were laughing with them not at them. The recently deceased Warren Mitchell spoke of his problem in the same way, Nasty people thinking Alf Garnett an orator rather than a fool.

When I stopped singing Clarence, I did add Si Khan's excellent Curtains of Old Joe's House to the repertoire. I still do a few of Mitch's numbers and am proud to have been a good friend of his for almost forty years. Nice to give Keith another opportunity to share the deliciously ironic lyrics again. You know, given Keith's twisting of public health figures to promote homophobia, it could have been written a retired PE teacher going out for a drink or to the disco.

I looked like a clown in Hertford town,
In a pub where the drinkers are deaf
They seem to enjoy my urban wit
Especially one called Geoff
He nodded particularly at my grasp of history
And my politics which are so queer
He said "don't talk bollocks, my real name is Betty Swollox"
And she whispered in my ear