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That Can’t Be Right….

Updated: 4 days ago

Once there was a pretty girl

Her name , it doesn’t matter

Has take-always each and every night

Now she gets fatter. And fatter


She was only sixteen, only sixteen

And I loved her so

But my ahpge now is seventy two

So off to the jailhouse i go


You shake my nerves

And you ratttle my brain

All your nagging is driving me insane

My pistol is primed

You have nagged too many times

Goodness Gracious, my pistoll has fired


That must be my gal

Yours don’t look like that

That must be my gal

Yours don’t look like that

I know my woman, she’s so round and fat


Del Shannon taking his hat off to Larry

Sam Cooke reminisces younger days

Jerry Lee fires through the Sky

Carl Perkins is simply Gone three times



4 commenti


Nigel Smith
Nigel Smith
13 giu

classic Colven, nice to hear you again fellah

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Some old classics nicely mis-remembered. Keep on rockin my friend

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I have to confess this one left me flumuxed and intrigued. I'm guessing all the references are songs so now you have me googling songs as well as Del Shannon, Sam Cooke, jerry Lee and Carl Perkins. I always learn something from your poems Colven.🙂

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Just a bit of nonsense verse using classic songs.recommend Eddie by Marty Wilde, recorded in 2021: a fitting tribute to his old freind Eddie Cochran, it brought me close to tears on first listening to it. https://youtu.be/TESjZUZ_NT4?si=hrnT-GQaSBCIu3kU

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