Poem MEME 2 - Comedy!

[debris4spike]

Yesterday I posted the very poinant poem "Perhaps" by Vera Brittain, which was dedicated to her fiance who died in the first world war.

I said then, that I didn't remember poetry ...Well, that was a lie!

I do remember one poem, and that is "One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night".

PC Warning -
As you can tell by the title it is weird(!) ... probably why I remember it.  It is behind the cut - but please don't read if you are upset about disability being mentioned in a silly fashion ... I don't know when it was written, but I  know my Mum knew it years before I was born, so if you do read it, read it with that thought in mind.



One fine day in the middle of the night
Two dead boys got up to fight
Back to back they faced each other
Drew their swords and shot each other

One was blind, the other couldn't see
So they chose a dummy for a referee
A blind man went to see fair play
A dumb man went to shout "hooray!"

A legless donkey walking by
Kicked the blind man in the eye
Knocked him through a 9 inch wall
Into a dry ditch and drowned them all

A deaf policeman heard the noise
And came to shoot the 2 dead boys
If you don't believe this lie is true
Ask the blind man, he saw it, too!
 

Comments

[jaded-jamie.livejournal.com]

ROFL!

OMGoodness!

This takes me right back to my childhood, chanting that over and over again in the playground hehe!

My old Gran used to tell me o shut up cos "It makes no bloody sense!"

Thanks for posting it!

[debris4spike]

It makes perfect sense - your Gran just didn't understand the finer points of logic!

Glad to bring back some memories.

[lilachigh.livejournal.com]

OMG, I haven't heard that for years! My Dad used to say it every year at the Christmas dinner table, followed by a very cut version of The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck, his feet were covered in blisters. He had no trousers of his own, so he had to wear his sister's!

I have a feeling the words were slightly different in the original!!!

[debris4spike]

Yay - my Mum's other poem ... that apparantly her father used to quote.

Great memories!

[jerusha]

Hee! I don't know where I've read that before, but I know I have.

[debris4spike]

Must say something about me - that it's the only poem I remember!

[auntiero.livejournal.com]

Wow! That took me back to grade school. Hee! I think this is a playground favorite all over the world. :D

[debris4spike]

Yes, it is one of those that you seem to have known all my life!

[mabel-marsters.livejournal.com]

I remember that one! The poem I usually think of if I have to say one from childhood is Hunter Trials - a nonsense poem by John Betjeman I think? It begins...

It's aw'fully bad luck on Diana,
Her ponies have swallowed their bits.
She fished down their throats with a spanner,
and frightened them all into fits...

Don't think DJ would have liked to have met her do you? LOL

[debris4spike]

Thanks for that reminder - I remember reading that as a kid and laughing ... and have just re-read it (sad to know which joke book it was in!) ... and have just choked ... DJ would not be happy!

[spikereader.livejournal.com]

I'm in a minority of one here - I've never heard that one. :D

[debris4spike]

You are just trying to prove that you are so much younger than me ... the poem was no longer popular!! That theory won't work though!