A stone age Chieftain called Ug Who some thought a bit of a thug He tethered a stick to a stone From then on the club was born The Emperor Julius caesar Was an imperious geezer He was bound to set all Rome a quiver When he forded that famed Gallic river The tyrannical Genghis Khan Was a very dangerous man In fact there was no one crazier In the whole continent of Asia And it's onwards and viva Jo Stalin Cos he was a right little darling He had quite a talent for moreism When imposing Siberian tourism Let's raise a glass for Sir Winston He'd more soldier in him than Princeton Left feeling a bit of a nelly When he reached for that soft underbelly Although Hitler looked very funny His outlook wasn't so sunny But eventually he came undone In a bunker with old Eva Brun And as for that Idi Amin He was more than a little bit mean He set everybody to shiver Chowing down on his enemies liver I f...
Young 'Un As i meandered through the nostalgic part of my brainbox one day, I came across a small boy. Pencil skinny he was and afflicted with ubiquitous grubbiness. A light grey schoolshirt, button missing, drifted in and out of dark flannel shorts, the pockets of which only he knew, or wanted to know the contents of. His face was made out of grime and freckles, a touch of snot and a large dollop of curiosity which was etched across sharp, blue eyes. Dirt crusted knees, the left bearing a large brown scab, which no doubt would be receiving some attention later, were the things propping up this morsel of a lad. Black, wooly socks struggled to cling to pale, wiry calves, in fact, one gave up and slithered down to the half mast position. Scuffed brown sandles finished off the bottom of the little boy, while carrot coloured, curly, wild hair topped him off and made him look like a badly labelled firework that had gone off unexpectedly. ...