Francis Duggan Poems

The cradle of Humanity anthropoligists say
Africa the great Continent from here far away
And though for the air ticket i cannot afford to pay
If wishes come true i will go there one day.
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Lets hear it for women a huge hip hooray
They are the unsung heroines of today
We need them as leaders to educate men
With wise women as leaders less wars for to win
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She looked so well dolled up the fair ageing rose
And few would believe that she does wear op shop clothes
She wears heavy makeup her gray hair dyed brown
And one would swear that she was from the wealthy side of the town
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Too late to say sorry when the damage is done
When the parents do grieve for their young daughter and son
Who has been taken from them in such a cruel way
And sorry it is not a hard thing to say.
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I do not understand these new age people
They say for the Planet's sake we ought to change
But they drive cars, burn fuels and live in houses
For how they speak in ways they do act strange.
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Old Linda is a tough old bird her moods are often black
And she never leaves the chance go by for to bad mouth her husband Jack
To anyone prepared to listen to her she will run him down
As if she were the 'hardest done by' ever in the town.
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For himself such bad karma he has sown
The hooded coward who broke into her home
And left her with blackened eye and cut on throat
And stole from her a fifty dollar note.
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With darkened face and in his cloak of silvery gray
I saw the black faced cuckoo shrike today
Perched on dead branch at top of dead gum tree
He uttered forth his cheerful melody.
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Prime minister Howard wants to extinguish Native Title
And off of the Aboriginals take their Land
And sell Australia to foreign investors
One of the many back door deals he's planned.
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Willie Neenan is still running as running to him is as much a part of his life
As the lives of his athletic daughters and of Marie his good wife
An Irish champion in his seventies and an Irish champion in his prime
No doubt Millstreet's greatest athlete he's proved that time after time.
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