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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365884" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Barge and the Bride</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was having a meal, steak egg and chips<br>At the Humpty Dumpty Inn, <br>Next to the Curly-Wyrley Cut<br>Where the Curly bits begin, <br>When I heard a shout from a passing barge<br>‘You'd better duck! ' it said, <br>Then the bone from a monster ham flew up<br>And it hit me in the head! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I fell to the crazy paving, gathered<br>My wits, and looked around, <br>And there was Joe on the ‘Autumn Queen'<br>With his daughter, Maggie Browne, <br>He'd said something to stir her blood<br>And she'd thrown the bone at him, <br>But missed - and always the lucky one, <br>I'd caught it on the chin! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘I'll get you back for this, ' I yelled, <br>And I shook my fist at her, <br>But she just laughed, and stuck her foot<br>On the prow, to bait my glare, <br>She slowly pulled her dress right up<br>To the thigh, and showed a leg, <br>‘If you can beat us to Walsall Lock<br>You can have me, we'll be wed! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I gathered Flynn and we hitched the horse<br>And we set off in pursuit, <br>But our old Barge was slow, and Jessie<br>The horse was old, to boot, <br>We carried a hundred tons of coal<br>And the going would be slow, <br>But Maggie had always turned me down<br>In the past… I'd let her go! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She knew I only had eyes for her, <br>She'd played me like a fool, <br>She'd flirt, then gather her skirts and run, <br>It seemed to be the rule, <br>I knew she wanted away from Joe<br>So this could be my chance, <br>She'd never gone back on her word before, <br>Was she ripe for a new romance? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They'd left us a half a mile behind<br>As we got her under way, <br>This dirty Barge with the fancy name<br>That I'd christened ‘Mandalay', <br>But Flynn got Jessie to heave and strain<br>And we made four miles an hour, <br>If we could beat her to Walsall Lock<br>Then I'd have her in my power! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The towpath changed to the other side<br>At a tiny hump-backed bridge, <br>Flynn had to lead the horse across<br>Then down, and under the ledge, <br>We called it ‘threading the needle' then, <br>By keeping the rope attached, <br>We'd made a couple of hundred yards<br>On the Barge we wanted to catch.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sun went down and the stars came out<br>I could see their lights ahead, <br>Their cabin gave out a cosy glow<br>As the thought rushed through my head, <br>That all was fair in love and war<br>I ran along the bank, <br>Then hidden in darkness up ahead<br>I unhitched their horse, called ‘Hank! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their Barge was dead in the water<br>When we passed them at nine o'clock, <br>By ten, I saw it ahead, the lights<br>And the gates of Walsall Lock, <br>Then out of the gloom I heard a sigh<br>As Maggie appeared in the dark, <br>And raised her face as the moon came up<br>So I kissed her, there by the Lock! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">30 June 2012</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(For our American readers, the ‘Curly-Wyrley<br>was the Wyrley and Essington Canal - ‘the Cut'<br>as we used to call canals, where I came from in<br>Birmingham, England. It had more twists and<br>turns than any canal in England, thus the <br>‘Curly-Wyrley'. During the Industrial Revolution<br>Canals were major transport hubs, valuable for the<br>Transport of coal from the midlands, and whole<br>families lived and eked out a living on these barges) .</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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At the Humpty Dumpty Inn, 
Next to the Curly-Wyrley Cut
Where the Curly bits begin, 
When I heard a shout from a passing barge
‘You'd better duck! ' it said, 
Then the bone from a monster ham flew up
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