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28 Feb 08 - 11:18 AM (#2274801) Subject: Lyr Req: Lost the words to Lord Franklyn From: billybob Help please, I have lost the words to Lord Franklyn. I remember it starts .. homeward bound one night on the deep swinging in my hammock I fell asleep.. |
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28 Feb 08 - 11:50 AM (#2274845) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lost the words to Lord Franklyn From: IanC If you put FRANKLIN in the search above, you'll find it under Lady Franklin's Lament. It's just he spelt his name with an I. :-) Ian |
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28 Feb 08 - 12:02 PM (#2274853) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lost the words to Lord Franklyn From: Joe Offer Yeah, he spelled it the American way.... OK, OK, I'm leaving.... |
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28 Feb 08 - 08:16 PM (#2275314) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lost the words to Lord Franklyn From: Jack Campin Somebody want to fund an expedition to go look for them? |
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29 Feb 08 - 08:58 AM (#2275644) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lost the words to Lord Franklyn From: billybob Thank you, trust me to spell him wrong! Wendy |
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29 Feb 08 - 09:40 AM (#2275682) Subject: Lyr Add: FRANKLIN (Stanley Accrington, 1993) From: Mr Happy FRANKLIN. Stanley Accrington 1993 'Twas homeward bound one night on the deep Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep Dream쳌fs a dream, and I thought it true Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew From Baffin Bay where the whale fishes play Across the frozen ocean in the month of May To seek a North west passage his course was fixed That's the North West of Canada and not up the M6 The sponsors of the expedition had limited means The only food they gave to Franklin was cans of beans Even the Eskimo in his skin canoe Had not only baked beans but frozen fish fingers too With all those beans the winds began to blow The fate of Franklin no man doth know The fate of Franklin no man can tell All that was left of him was a funny smell Now in those days cans were made out of lead They should have been made out of aluminium instead The crew grew sick and wished they'd never started And as for Franklin ....... he simply departed But now my story it gives me pain I'll not be able to listen to that song again Without thinking of that blunder alimentary Which I heard about in a BBC2 documentary I was down at a folk club where the admission's cheap Someone sang Lord Franklin and I fell asleep Dream쳌fs £10000 was freely given By Lady Franklin, who'd not seen the television But I don't think that Lord Franklin died from the effects of lead I think that the baked beans did for him instead I think he exploded in the thin arctic air And punched a great big hole in the ozone layer |
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29 Feb 08 - 09:46 AM (#2275687) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lost the words to Lord Franklyn From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie Such crass irreverence from one who ought to know better--flatulating an icon like that! :) Gives new meaning to the term "Slap Happy," don't it now? :0 Chicken Charlie |
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29 Feb 08 - 09:59 AM (#2275699) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lost the words to Lord Franklyn From: Jack Campin Here's something they just found that seems to have been lost longer than Franklin, maybe there ought to be a song about it? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7254523.stm |