The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #43572   Message #637746
Posted By: Matthew Edwards
29-Jan-02 - 07:46 AM
Thread Name: Stony Stratford: Armageddon
Subject: RE: Stony Stratford: Armageddon
I'll second the nomination of Bill Sables even if he is wearing his anti-gravitas device.

As I've contributed a couple of songs to previous threads about this Gathering, in view of the flooding threat here is yet another "Eddystone Light" parody.

My father was the Keeper of the Buckingham Light,
And he slept with a mudcat one fine night.
From this union there came three -
A catfish, and a mudlark, and the other was me!

Chorus:
Yo! Ho! Ho! as we sing and booze,
O for a life on the banks of the Ouse.


One night as I went fishing in the brook,
I cast my rod, and I sank my hook.
A voice from the river shouted "Ahoy!"
And there was my mother with her new toy boy.

"O where are the rest of my children three?"
My mother then she asked of me.
One got pickled in a goldfish bowl,
The other plays for Tottenham and keeps the goal.

Then a salmon leaped over the weir,
I looked for my mother but I couldn't see her,
Still her voice came echoing back through the night -
"To Hell with the Keeper of the Buckingham Light!"