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Wales

(Written when asked to provide advice to someone who was going to Wales for the first time, in rhyme!)

Though I've never been to Wales
I have been to strange DeSalles,
And as the two are not alike
You should hit on a real hot dyke.

The world is full of Tonypandy
From too many drinks of brandy
And from strangers accept no candy
Or you shall wake up not so dandy!

They speak with strange accents there
And the natives don't wash hair.
That smell you smell isn't you
It's the crazy chic in blue!

The world is full of Tonypandy
From too many drinks of brandy
And from strangers accept no candy
Or you shall wake up not so dandy!

"Canadian" you should claim,
And call Bush: "Man of Ill-Fame"
Sleep in your clothes every night
Because the showers are a fright.

The world is full of Tonypandy
From too many drinks of brandy
And from strangers accept no candy
Or you shall wake up not so dandy!

But my real advice doesn't rhyme
Nor does this poem keep good time.
Keep this final advice in mind;
When all else fails, it is kind:

"Always keep your kit with you: candles, chalk, incense, silver knife, thuggee knife, service revolver, garlic, Yellow Sign, cabfare, condoms, and change."

The world is full of Tonypandy
From too many drinks of brandy
And from strangers accept no candy
Or you shall wake up not so dandy!

Response:

Your poem sounded like a song
And so I tried to sing along
But my melody was wrong--
your verses are far better.

You see, I bleated like a goat
When I tried singing what you wrote
I howled out every single note--
much like an Irish setter.

But now you must spill all the beans,
I know not what a small word means,
'Twould baffle even college deans,
Though your advice was handy.

With some shame and trepidation
it requires postulation--
Here is the word in a quotation:
What the hell is "Tonypandy"?

Response to the response:

Tonypandy is a town
which rebeled against the crown
Many a Welshman died that day;
Such is what history books say.

On the eighth day of Novmeber
In nineteen ten they remember
The coal strike came to a head,
English Hussars counting dead.

The miners stopped work that day
And asked their boss for more pay.
D. A. Thomas was his name
And now he rots in ill fame.

He knew not what to do about
The men whose work was not put out.
Was two shillings not enough
For a day's work in the rough?

The strike cost money and time
And all on Thomas' dime!
He called a friend in Parliment
And they sent him a regiment.

One Thousand police arrived then
With fifteen hundred cav'rymen.
They viewed the situation
And made recommendation.

Wires would surround the mine
Live with pain at the right time;
Boiling water was to be used
And many other things they mused.

Through the hail of calamaties
The miners and their families
Endured more than could we two
But still the stikers held true.

Finally, with clubs and swords
Miners were forced to hear words:
The eighteenth Hussars charged in
And many died in the din.

Women screamed, children cried out,
Men fought with hands and screams, shouts.
None were spared, but who ran 'way
That cold, gray november eighth day.

Tonypandy is a town
which rebeled against the crown
Many a welshman died that day;
Such is what history books say.

But the history books are wrong
And this is why I write this song.
The soldiers got along well
And it never was such hell.

The English did not kill a man,
Or child or tearful woman,
But they always remember
The eighth day of November.

Be you Labour man or Tory
We all enjoy a good story.
We historians all do know,
That's not what happened in the snow.

It's not the thing that matters,
It's myth, and all it's blathers.
So we think it's all just dandy
To call a lie - Tonypandy!

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