Young lads being catapulted towards Clitheroe<\/p>\n
In seldom reported boating accidents<\/p>\n
Of mills and warehouses being burned to the ground<\/p>\n
Never in a million years were they insurance jobs<\/p>\n
One of them never burned down you know<\/p>\n
It was on a hill away from canal<\/p>\n
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Our Albert used to love these trips\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n I have not seem much of him recently down butchers<\/em><\/p>\n That is because he is dead\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Oh I am so sorry I am really sorry so is George\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n You are sorry George\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n I never knew the chap but if you say I am sorry then I suppose I am\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n It has been a long time Elsie\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n He died at 1940\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Was he killed in action\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n No he fell into the canal not far from here\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Pissed as a newt they say but I knew him better<\/em><\/p>\n He never touched a drop when I was around\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n The funeral is on Tuesday<\/em><\/p>\n Albert always loved Tuesdays\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n He liked Wednesdays but preferred Tuesdays<\/em><\/p>\n I like Saturdays so I watch the Rovers\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Nobody asked for your opinion George\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Reality is a necessity my dear<\/em><\/p>\n Come again\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n It was nothing just look at those silly ducks<\/em><\/p>\n I think that the captain of this barge is rather rude\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Ricky<\/em><\/p>\n Yes<\/em><\/p>\n Cecil’s youngest<\/em><\/p>\n He has never been the same since his Tracey went to university<\/em><\/p>\n If you say so\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Jo thinks that he wants us to fall into the gap or into canal<\/em><\/p>\n And remember our Pat came from Wigan\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n It is not just a town of pies<\/em><\/p>\n He has rather insulted her memory\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n She is still alive Sue and works in Smiths\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Look at them\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Look at who\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Those two at the front<\/em><\/p>\n Proper Southerners\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n That is not a crime Nora\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n People have to live in the south<\/em><\/p>\n It is so easy for them to look chic and beautiful\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Never done a hard days graft in their lives\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n They will probably buy a second home in Skipton and only visit it twice a year<\/em><\/p>\n So what\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n It is plain wrong look at her with her golden mane and those beautiful features\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Not all of us were born pretty\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n She is not pretty but timelessly beautiful Nora\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n I used to be pretty when I were a lass\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Pretty awful your dad said\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n And him with his arrogant manner\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Knows everything he does\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n My father and his father and his fathers father were down the mines at fifteen\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Diseased at forty and dead at sixty I bet that has never crossed his mind\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n He might be a poet\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Come again Jim\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n I said that he might be poet\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n He certainly looks soft enough to be one\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n There look he buying that yellow bucket from our Lucy\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n He must be poet then\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Looks a bit like Fred Trueman if you ask me\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Fred had dark hair Mary<\/em><\/p>\n No his features are northern like yours\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n A minute ago you were saying that they were southerners\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n He might have had folk in the north<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Will and Jane took a barge trip on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal on the 19th of September 2021<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Young lads being catapulted towards Clitheroe In seldom reported boating accidents Of mills and warehouses being burned to the ground Never in a million years were they insurance jobs One of them never burned down you know It was on a hill away from canal Our Albert used to love these trips\u00a0 I have 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