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He sat out back in his deck chair
Half asleep, and reading a book,
His wife was bustling round the
place
She had the dinner to cook,
..
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They’d
grown together as boys, they say,
They’d
shared each spat and spill,
But
one lived down in a terrace house
The
oth..
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‘What
do you play with my mistress here
In
the dark before the dawn,
How
did you come by the chamber key,
Is
the locksmith now ..
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There’s
an island out in a distant sea
Way
off from the beaten track,
It’s
a tiny island, seven by three
And
it’s k..
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It
seems it was only yesterday
I
was just on twenty-three,
Feeling
my way in the world out there
‘Til
you distracted me,
I
..
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No-one
had heard of Lennox Dred
‘Til
he rumbled into town,
Bringing
a cold sou’wester as
The
rain came bucketing down,
..
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A
guy called Stanley Weatheringham
Turned
up at my college room,
I’d
wanted a quiet boarder there
To
help with the rent, and so..
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‘Since
ever we came to this grey old house
You’ve
been muttering under your breath,
When
I come running you always stop,
Y..
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The
man I saw at the edge of the wood
Had
flowers, twined in his hair,
His
jerkin was both green and ragged
His
legs were brown and b..
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She
sat and pored over maps and charts
In
the early hours, in dread,
She
said she needed to plot her path
For
the difficult days ahea..
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