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Thread #160188 Message #3798583
Posted By: GUEST,In good company
01-Jul-16 - 09:16 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: BoJo
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: BoJo
Missing a like button again :-D
The original Bobby Shafto has been identified with a resident of Hollybrook, County Wicklow, Ireland, who died in 1737.[1] It was used by the supporters of Robert Shafto (sometimes spelt Shaftoe), who was an eighteenth-century British Member of Parliament (MP) for County Durham (c. 1730–97), and later the borough of Downton in Wiltshire.[1] Supporters used another verse in the 1761 election:
Bobby Shafto's looking out,
All his ribbons flew about,
All the ladies gave a shout,
Hey for Boy Shafto![1]
(Wikipedia)
Boris Johnson's looking glum
Gove has stuck it up his bum
Lady May says tell your Mum
Or you'll get further shafted...
:-) ???