Francis Duggan Poems

You sing your Country's anthem and you wave your Country's flag
And of Olympic medals won by your Nation's athletes you like to have your brag
But come tomorrow morning no wealthier you will be
Though you have cheered on strangers to their greatest victory.
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A wave from Jimmy Sullivan in Millstreet far away
A nice and spontaneous gesture that did help to make my day
From Clara road one must presume in view of Clara hill
It brought back the old memories as if time had stood still.
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Is she that lovely woman I knew her when she was in her prime
When I was a Primary school going boy long before I discovered rhyme
Her hair was brown and wavy in those days as it is still today
No doubt she's using hair dye to cover the natural gray.
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He was taken with others to Vizner by the foot of the Sierra Nevadas as dawn's lamp lit up the sky
They were seen to be different so for that they had to die
The loud echo of the Falangists guns shattered the peace and quiet
And the murdered were carried to a mass grave and buried out of sight.
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Crows are very clever birds as some scientists tell us so
And you will not find a smarter bird than your average black crow
To their advantage they can use tools where some species of birds cannot live they thrive
And despite what some may think of them they know how to survive.
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Where the tall mountain ash on the high ground they seem to touch the very sky
They now call it The Yarra Ranges though Sherbrooke it once was known by
Places such as Sherbrooke, Belgrave and Kallista in fancy i often do see
Those old wooded hills east of Melbourne will not fade from my memory.
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Tomorrow may be better you hear some people say
But tomorrow will come in it's own good time we must live for today
And tomorrow for some will not dawn that's life one must suppose
We are as fragile it would seem as the petals of the rose,
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At a time of your life when you need peace of mind
You feel lady luck to you is not so kind
And money problems cause you worry and stress
And so sad for you in a financial mess.
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Ben Johnson knew of the glory and Ben Johnson knew of the fame
And he also knew of ridicule and he also knew of shame
Once the World's fastest sprinter now known as a drugs cheat
But it cannot be taken from him that he was a great athlete.
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Goodbye to the old hill of wallaby and roo
And to the familiar call of the weerloo
And farewell to the paddocks so stony and brown
North, south, east and west of the old country town,
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