Re: The game goes ever on
Posted by:
MistyCat (122.58.102.---)
Date: February 22, 2014 04:52AM
... not wanting to to wear braces, vests, pants, boots with laces, spats, hats, shirts of cotton, tin, flannel, Oxford commas or pyjamas.
What's the good of wearing braces,
Vests and pants and boots with laces,
Spats or hats you buy in places
Down the old High Road Road?
What's the use of shirts of cotton,
Studs that always get forgotten?
These affairs are simply rotten:
Better far is woad.
Woad's the stuff to show, men.
Woad to scare your foemen:
Boil it to a brilliant hue
And rub it on your back and your abdomen.
Ancient Briton never hit on
Anything as good as woad to fit on
Neck, or knees, or where you sit on.
Tailors, you be blowed.
Romans came across the Channel
All wrapped up in tin and flannel:
Half a pint of woad per man'll
Dress us more than these.
Saxon, you can waste your stitches
Building beds for bugs in breeches:
We have woad to clothe us, which is
Not a nest for fleas.
Romans keep your armours;
Saxons your pyjamas:
Hairy coats were meant for goats,
Gorillas, yaks, retriever dogs and llamas.
Tramp up Snowdon with our woad on:
Never mind if we get rained or blowed on.
Never want a button sewed on.
Go it, Ancient B's.
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I think that I shall never smell...