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By The Lough [message #73093]

Mon, 31 July 2017 08:17

Pedro

Toe is in the water

Registered: March 2014
Messages: 94

Funny how you can have several unconnected conversations and the same or similar topic will be raised by the opposite party. One such recent subject for me has been about English speling and pronunciation. I thought this might amuse:

By The Lough
By Pedro

Escaped at last from Yorkshire's Brough
On the shore sat Jimmy Clough
Near outfall from the mining sough
And thought on how his life were tough.

Da had caught him and Davy Bough
Drinking from that other trough
And smacked him right hard and thorough
And dumped him, skint, in next borough.

So Jimmy had to earn some dough
And let that smarmy git from Slough,
(Here on two weeks furlough,)
Hard and fast his arse to plough.

Stirred from pleasant dreams of Bough
By the raucous cry of chough
Wakes with tears, a sob, a cough,
And ache of last night's tumble rough.

A drink to think and stop his hiccough.

"With all this I've had enough,
I'm done, I'm through.
Like the snake skin on yon bough
My old life I will slough
(Though some say slough)
And move elsewhere but not to Slough!"

And so he ups and goes .. to Loughborough.

©Copyright 2017 Pedro

[Updated on: Mon, 31 July 2017 12:03]

Pedro

		By The Lough By: Pedro on Mon, 31 July 2017 08:17
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