NONSENSE VERSE

Last October (Bo Diddley)

We heard the music and human sound

Tourist marks in Camden Town

Old horse stables arched with brick

And an inflatable eggplant prick

Shopping stalls with a magpie eye

Sales banners well they don’t lie

Kashmir saris and tie-dye skirts

Biker jackets and Clash t-shirts

Walking cobbles New World no-how

Tripped and fell beside the canal

Oh let’s retire to the Oxford pub

For pints of beer and plates of grub

Inside we saw Canada on a big TV

Losing Japanese World Cup rugby

Lit British cigarettes on the patio

Wondered where else we’d care to go

Oh my pretty baby oh my pretty girl

You said best let our days unfurl

This be us now both you and I

‘Cause some day soon our souls may fly

I said our life together is pretty grand

Let’s take the Tube up to The Strand

Baby we’re here in London town

Let’s live our time in its surround

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