is that from the Book or the band??:shock:
The Band, a track called “The Lady Lies”, from the 1978 album And then there were Three.
TRAFFIC LYRICS
“Hole In My Shoe”
I looked to the sky
Where an elephant’s eye
Was looking at me
From a bubblegum tree
And all that I knew
The hole in my shoe
Was letting in water (letting in water)
I walked through a field
That just wasn’t real
Where 100 tin soldiers
Would shoot at my shoulder
And all that I knew
The hole in my shoe
Was letting in water (letting in water)
(I climbed on the back of a giant albatross
Which flew through a crack in the cloud
To a place where happiness reigned all year round
Where music played ever so loudly)
I started to fall
And suddenly woke
And the dew on the grass
It stuck to my coat
And all that I knew
The hole in my shoe
Was letting in water (letting in water)
is this what we have relegated ourselves to? - pasting tracks from songs? Jem would not be happy with this - where are the poems, limericks etc - common and garden banter - come on lads let make an effort??
there was a young lady from Rhyl
who started takin the pill
It rumbled inside her, thought she’d swallowed a spider
she became moribundally ill!
ok well it’s not shakespeare - but he wasn’t very good at shaking spears anyway - or keats - or milligan [spike] or even john lennon but I am trying - yes very trying at times I know
know can we beaf this up a bit - please!! - I thenk you I thenk you!:shock::shock:
wot ya mean I started it?
YEs Gummy we have become complacent & twee,
watch this space
I accept your admonishment
timed in astonishment
(attempt to write verse abandoned)
Bear with me,
I have sleep walked into a bad position by , well, I’ll just have to outline the dang thing.
Yesterday I agreed to go to the Midlands early next year for my oldest surviving cousin’s 60th wedding anniversary celebration. My dad was one of 7 kids & the oldest was born 20 years before him, hence the 7 had a great spread of ages.
Anyway, my cousin is exactly 20 years my senior. We lost touch for many years, while the couple were working around the globe due to the husband in the employ of ESSO. When we met up again in the 1990’s,
We immediately bonded, helped by a joint interest in family history. They were living on a former smallholding of 2 acres over looking the GOLDEN VALLLEY in Herefordshire. Their view was perfect, except for a house below them on the hillside which came to be their blot on the landscape. Answer was, simples, they bought it and demolished it.
So that is something my cousin. Now on nurse Gillians side of the family, a small family it has to be said, there are no cousins, just one brother, divorced, and one sopn, my nephew. Coincidentally, they are globetrotters too, having lived and worked in Hong Kong, Poland, Emirates, Saudi, South America & the States, never the UK. The thing is that the son, boarding school, well connected, quite posh is a 30 & now a big name in IT , Songwriting, producing and session work. He is an item with a very successful female singer. Of late he has become close to my daughter & has rediscovered his family, me and nurse Gillian, the old folk at home. It’s quite touching really. He is very fit and good looking.
Anyway, he plans to marry his pop singer partner early next year and we said YES.
Here is my problem, Both my dear cousin & my dear nephew have informed us of their chosen dates. Dates would have been great but they have both chosen February 4th 2017.
I have said yes to both, I don’t know what to do?
One venue is in the North of Scotland & the other in the Extreme south of England.
I can’t go to both, I could say no to both
Doh!
400 words
simple be selfish =pick the one you prefer and and as you mentioned there was a “bear with me” explain that you know have a pet bear to the unlucky choice and make excuses about no one will bear sit??
best wishes - well wisher. 
Ah so!
What kind of BEAR is it, that’s with me.
Cross out those you think it wasn’t applicable to.
Polar
Brown
Black Asian
Black American
Kodiak
Grizzly
Sun
Spectacled
Panda
?
Never understand these dilemma’s having engineered a world where there is a requirement to generate income, other folks saurez’s are of little concern, if they cost income.
£1 for £1, it’s stupid, but it is sustainable.
Too a point.
RJ,DUDE,M’MAIN MAN,BRO…[etc]
T’is a simple solution,that is in fact standing atop a [metaphorical] windswept cliff,wildly waving and gesticulating in your general AND specific direction.
Wotcha do is,you explain to songwriter prospective son-in-law that,in keeping with the adage of ‘shit happens’,a previously accepted engagement at the other end of the country,with folk of an age concomitant with sudden and unexpected departure from this realm,has to take presidence,as word has been given-and that,as a tuneful wordsmith himself,you have full and unshakeable faith in his understanding that a man’s word given is a man’s word kept. Especially as the shock of your non-appearance could have severe and irreversible consequenses regarding the invitees.
Then,ask him to write a song about your disappointment at not being able to accept his invitation-and that,when doing so,he make full use of dominant 7th,plus incorporate 9th and 13th,to give a smooth,slow,deeply-immersing Blues chord progression that really tugs the heart-strings and in doing so,fully-but-exquisitely expresses your heartfelt pain at missing such a wonderful event with such excellent and valued people. See?
Piece ‘a’ piss,squire…
[and you might even win the ‘Bullshit Of The Year’ award!!!]
erhmm !! - you have been eating all ya greens lately haven’t ya - well donne laddie! one brussel sprout two BS three BS four!
PUG,
Tis a marvellous vocabulary you have & a marvellous way of engaging the readers attention.
What you say is very wise.
I am still torn & last night succumbed to an emotional appeal from yon nephew, personally assuring him of our attendance. HIs future better half wants the ceremony to be held in Aberdeen to include her much adored & much loved Grandparents, now in their late nineties & too frail to risk such a long journey.
( my REAL uncle Arthur makes the trip to our retired folks community every Saturday to play DOMINOes, he is 97.)
Having already assured my dear cousin of my attendance at her 60th Wedding Anniversary, I am sorry to say that my indecision makes me I feel like a shite.
PS.
I have been invited to 3 of these diamond anniversary events this year so far, with a 4th this Sunday.
yo are a popular someone -maybe a diary manager would help - nurse vivian doesn’t seem to be aiding at all?
Hmmmmm
. more thought needed.
Did I mention my encounter with TOURETTES SYNDROME?
“Tourettes,or not Tourettes-that is the question.
Whether t’is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and bollocks of outrageous fortune;or to take up arms,and by so doing,fcuking defeat them”.
This is getting Readachelous.
if ya canny keep up with the speed SF then spit it out laddie and restock the fire?:shock: