Brian Johnson Poems Poems

Chicken

When nothing turns out quite the way you'd planned it
And your life just seems to be in disarray
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Five a day blues

I'm trying my best to stay healthy, and I think I've been doing OK
I've cut back on salt and on sugar, and I'm eating at least five a day
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Granddad

Granddad popped his clogs today, and it's prob'ly just as well
Cause life had worn him down since his retirement
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Letter to the chief

I'm putting pen to paper in the customary way
To tell you that my patience has expired
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Feet, do your stuff just one more time
Fandango round the Palais
Direct these poor arthritic bones
To dance that grand finale
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Albert G Walpole, proud legionnaire
Clerk to the council for all of his days
Lived with his mother in Hartington D'Arcy
Nice little end terrace, quite set in his ways
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