After a recent visit to London to see Squeeze play live.


Squeeze were brilliant, but the rest of my visit inspired this grumpy poem.


I did enjoy London really though.


A positive poem about this wonderful city to follow soon.


I'll start the next one with Squeeze at the 02 and maybe drop in some of their great lyrics.


If you don't approve of this poem, well....


(I'd beg for some forgiveness but begging's not my business)


Lyrics by C. Difford & G Tilbrook.


London

Georgie Boy Georgie Boy,
Where have you been?
I've been to London to visit the Queen.

Georgie Boy Georgie Boy,
What did you do there,
I checked in on Westminster,
To see if they still care?

The Queen was dead,
And so was cash,
To eat fish n chips
No more alas....

But a Lebanese, Turkish,
Greek or Egyptian,
World wide bizarres,
Multi cultural kitchens.

To find real ale
Was hell of a chore,
I had to circumnavigate the tube,
Alas, in Euston I scored!

London Pride in demise,
A Cockney accent was rare,
To put this in print,
Well Do I?
I've dared….

A middle aged
white man,
Classed, ignorant type,
The wokies so precious
So sanctimoniously right.

I went to Camden
To seek out Dingwalls,
Where Dury once played,
Cheerful reasons no more.

Cause it's now called Koko,
Still some live music played,
But I bet Ian and Wilko,
Would turn in their graves.

So I visited Kilburn,
Saw the High Roads sign,
But The Fiddler boarded up,
A sigh of the times.

My only hope for a good pint,
And some music played live,
Was a London Irish pub,
Sadly not a dive….

Where rapscallions and hobos used to swear smoke and drink,
It may as well now be a gay bar,
Called, Billy The Pink.

Still no ale on draft,
But a fine pint of Guiness,
A musican arrived,
I thought this is the business.

The musician sat, smiled,
Another arrived,
They ordered big jugs of water,
I shuddered, then cried.

Are there statues still standing
In old London Town?
Or have lovies and lefties,
Had them all raised to the ground?

I'm geriatric and grumpy,
But quite a nice bloke,
They're trying to turn us all racist,
I won't become part of their joke.

I'm sadly quite happy
That I'm nearing the grave,
When I was young I was good,
Now I'm old, badly behaved.

It seems I have lived life,
Quite in reverse,
I was once naive and innocent,
But now I am cursed.

Georgie Boy Georgie Boy
Where did you go,
I think it was London
I wish it was SO!



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