Francis Duggan Poems

Only knew she never married dear kind hearted Nancy Gray
And never thought that she had children but that's not so one known to say
One who know her better than I say that Nancy had a son
But that he never came home to her when the battle had been won.
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He has one wish for the future a small house beside the sea
Where the wild waves of Pacific keep on rumbling ceaselessly
Phillip Island or San Remo, Cape Paterson or Inverloch
Just a small house by the ocean on a quarter acre block.
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The Yobbo takes his mates out for a drive
And the faster he accelerate the greater is their thrill
The other motorists at the speed limit drive
And he pass them as if they were standing still.
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Invertebrates and slugs and such they eat
The water birds with big and ugly feet
You know them by their wild and distinct cry
And their legs are always dangling as they fly.
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Did you ever feel so empty that you pondered in despair
About life and about living and at the wall you stand and stare
And of emotions your soul empty of anger, laughter, joy or tears
And you feel your life's been wasted you reflect on wasted years.
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On a cold and wild December morn
In a field down under old Blackthorn
In a rushy patch the brown hare slept
As through the field a dog fox crept.
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The man by the Australian people empowered
The Liberal Prime Minister Mr John Howard
For years he's locked horns with Keating and Hawke
Those two were smooth talkers and John too can talk.
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The magpie fluting softly on the gray gum and currawong sing in the early day
And a long long way from here to Ballydaly and Rathmore even further still away
And a long long way from here to Clara mountain and from the
quiet fields of Claramore
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I've often wondered why he did not stay
In his green country all those miles away
Since nostalgia he has not yet outgrown
And he still refers to Northampton as home? .
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My daddy won't be coming home my daddy gone away
My daddy gone to other World that's what my mummy say
My daddy gone to better World to World beyond the sky
And now I know dad won't come home for mummy never lie.
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