This is me, Eccles

This is me, Eccles
This is me, Eccles

Friday, 9 January 2015

Lily the Pink - some new verses

First, to appreciate this post, you need to be familiar with the classic song "Lily the pink". We particularly appreciate this verse for its sensitive handling of transgender issues:
Jennifer Eccles
Had terrible freckles,
And the boys all called her names,
But she changed with 
Medicinal compound:
Now he joins in all the games.

Scaffold

Pioneers of transgender awareness.

Now, here are four new verses.

Murphy-O'Connor
Thought he was a goner
When Austen said he'd misbehaved:
So they gave him
Medicinal compound:
Now he hopes he may be saved.
Cormac and piano

"I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order!"

Professor Dawkins
Could not stop his squawkings,
Though they found his views were junk:
So they gave him
Medicinal compound:
Now he's training as a monk.
Trappist

Professor Dawkins becomes a Trappist.

Damian Thompson
Had mischievous romps on
His blog at the Telegraph:
So they gave him
Medicinal compound:
Now he's gone, and makes folk laugh.
Thompson and Farage

Thompson and Farage get ideas from the Eccles blog.

Cardinal Kasper
Made everyone gasp: "A
Man like this destroys the Church!"
So they gave him
Medicinal compound:
Now they've left him in the lurch.
Singing in the rain

"Can I come indoors if I behave myself?"

2 comments:

  1. That song brought me back to a favorite pub of my youth! And the new verses are appealing to my sort-of grown-up taste.

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  2. Ole Frank Bergoglio
    Thought he was Holy Cornholio
    With his shirt upon his head,
    So they gave him
    Medicinal compound:
    He puts his trousers there instead.

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