Eons ago I had a book called 'Verse and Worse'.
A particular humorous poem from it has stuck in my head all these years. I don't know who the original author was, and I may have got the odd word wrong here and there. But here is what I recall.
"Twas an evening last December
As I very well remember,
I was walking down the road in drunken pride.
But me knees were all a flutter, so I lay down, in the gutter
And a pig came up, and and lay down by my side.
As I lay there in the gutter,
Thinking thoughts I could not utter,
I thought I heard a passing colleen say
'You can tell a man that boozes,
By the company he chooses.'
At that, the pig got up and walked away."
Comments
New comment
I know the last line and the context:
And the pig got up and slowly walked away.
Which is also the title. It was a temperance poem.
New comment
Gosh a temperance poem, I really had no idea. But I don't think it works, it’s funny but would it put people off drink?
New comment
Hangovers, bankruptcy, unemployment, divorce, homelessness, bad skin, liver failure and umpteen medical consequences won't do it, so I don't see how a music-hall ditty would have much effect. No more than Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat from Guys and Dolls would.