{"id":2602,"date":"2024-06-01T21:25:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T21:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2024-06-01T21:26:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T21:26:11","slug":"bagpipe-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/01\/bagpipe-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Bagpipe Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bagpipe music\u00a0<time>(1938)<\/time><\/h2>\n<div>It\u2019s no go the merry-go-round, it\u2019s no go the rickshaw,<br \/>\nAll we want is a limousine and a ticket for the\u00a0peepshow.<br \/>\nTheir knickers are made of cr\u00eape-de-chine, their shoes are made of python,<br \/>\nTheir halls are lined with tiger rugs and their walls with heads of bison.John MacDonald found a corpse, put it under the sofa,<br \/>\nWaited till it came to life and hit it with a poker,<br \/>\nSold its eyes for souvenirs, sold its blood for whisky,<br \/>\nKept its bones for dumb-bells to use when he was fifty.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no go the Yogi-Man, it\u2019s no go Blavatsky,<br \/>\nAll we want is a bank balance and a bit of skirt in a taxi.<\/p>\n<p>Annie MacDougall went to milk, caught her foot in the heather,<br \/>\nWoke to hear a dance record playing of Old Vienna.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s no go your maidenheads, it\u2019s no go your culture,<br \/>\nAll we want is a Dunlop tyre and the devil mend the puncture.<\/p>\n<p>The Laird o\u2019Phelps spent Hogmanay declaring he was sober,<br \/>\nCounted his feet to prove the fact and found he had one foot over.<br \/>\nMrs Carmichael had her fifth, looked at the job with repulsion,<br \/>\nSaid to the midwife \u2018Take it away; I\u2019m through with over-production\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no go the gossip column, it\u2019s no go the Ceilidh,<br \/>\nAll we want is a\u00a0mother\u2019s help and a sugar-stick for the baby.<\/p>\n<p>Willie Murray cut his thumb, couldn\u2019t count the damage,<br \/>\nTook the hide of an Ayrshire cow and used it for a bandage.<br \/>\nHis brother caught three hundred\u00a0cran\u00a0when the seas were lavish,<br \/>\nThrew the bleeders back in the sea and went upon the parish.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no go the Herring Board, it\u2019s no go the Bible,<br \/>\nAll we want is a packet of fags when our hands are idle.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no go the\u00a0picture\u00a0palace, it\u2019s no go the stadium,<br \/>\nIt\u2019s no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums,<br \/>\nIt\u2019s no go the Government grants, it\u2019s no go the elections,<br \/>\nSit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no go my honey love, it\u2019s no go my poppet;<br \/>\nWork your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit.<br \/>\nThe glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall forever,<br \/>\nBut if you break the bloody glass you won\u2019t hold up the weather.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Louis MacNiece (1938)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bagpipe music\u00a0(1938) It\u2019s no go the merry-go-round, it\u2019s no go the rickshaw, All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the\u00a0peepshow. 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