Francis Duggan Poems

Les Darcy was Australia's greatest boxer and though in his Homeland now his is a revered name
In his late teens he was seen as a draft dodger and back then that was seen as cause for shame
In World war 1 he did not enlist for service he stowed off to America instead
But within months the to be World Champion at twenty years from a poisoned tooth was dead.
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You see that fellow there with skin so brown
He is a stranger from some foreign town
His deep suntan tells he's from hot Country
From Spain or France or maybe Italy.
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Though living far from Ireland he's still Irish to the core
And he still talks of Kerry and Kenmare and Inchamore
And he derive much pleasure knocking Thatcher and the Queen
And he feels ever faithful to the wearers of the green.
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He dyes his hair a dark brown to hide the tell tale gray
And you might say proud Willie has known a better day
And though he's only forty two he's now well past his prime
And greater men by far than him have bowed to father time.
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I've read about the planned development on Wilsons Promontory and I am on the Greenies side
For if they cut away shrubs, trees and bushes the birds won't have places to hide
From the larger birds who would eat them the owls and hawks and birds of prey
It's a price for human development that small birds with their lives must pay.
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To be the U.S. President is not his dream come true
But to be better than his daddy and do what dad failed to do
By toppling Saddam Hussein he thinks he will out do his dad
For one with such power at his disposal that might seem a bit sad.
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When last I saw John Healy what year offhand don't know
It must have been in the late sixties now that seems long ago
As we shook hands in parting he said again soon we will meet
If not in New York City then maybe in Millstreet.
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the word was he was evil and some evil things he'd done
And amongst the like minded some respect he had won
From his late teens a criminal and he lived on the run
And he had committed armed robberies and he lived and died by the gun.
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For the betterment of mankind there has always been a case
Make yourself a better person to make this World a better place
If each of us sought self improvement went in search of God
within
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This is a song of a working class person
One that I know though I often don't meet
She is an inspiration to the battlers
Maria the woman who lives on Watt street.
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