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Thread #44379   Message #654636
Posted By: Ian Darby
21-Feb-02 - 10:34 AM
Thread Name: BS: I think there's a song challenge here!!!
Subject: RE: BS: I think there's a song challenge here!!!
Something else, try and have a look at the poetry of William Mc Gonegal.

He used to scour the magazines of the time looking for disasters to write poems about.

Some of these would rival the worst country songs and he managed to feature loss of life, crippled children, and a train wreck in just one of them

One of the lines will stay with me Forever,

"The stronger we our bridges do build, the less chance we have of being killed."

There was an album of his poetry released by John Laurie, and Spike Milligan also did some parodies,

The other thing is that most of the disaster ballads like Trimdon Grange & Gresford were written and sold to raise money for the victims families so thats okay then.