Harold Wilson Poem by Francis Duggan

Harold Wilson was Britain's pipe smoking Prime Minister a smart politician as I do recall
He was a champion of Britain's Labor voters to many their Nation's best P M of all
A stocky round faced man he was as cool as an ice cube about him he did have quite a charming way
So clever yet he never did show much emotion he always seemed calm he was quite a man in his day

In refusing to commit British troops to the Vietnam war the wily one from Huddersfield was thinking ahead
As was proven by the Allies failure in Vietnam with thousands of their brave soldiers dead
But Britain was in economic depression and Wilson's Government went down to defeat
To the right wing Conservative Party led by the ambitious Ted Heath.

In March 1974 Wilson again became Prime Minister but in 1976 he called it a day
The pipe smoking Prime Minister of Britain gave his Nation's top job away
He retired with his poet wife Mary but alzheimer's did quickly set in
And it stripped the great genius of all of his memory in life it is so hard to win.

Harold Wilson was a British Prime Minister who later lost his memory
But he was a wily campaigner as wily as wily can be
He smoked his pipe in his relaxed way in Britain a Labor Party great
Till alzheimer's robbed him of his memory who could wish on anyone such a fate.