<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=560079" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>John From Fishguard</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sing old John a song of his Hometown of Fishguard in Wales by the sea<br>The Town he left when he was in his mid twenties in the Spring of nineteen sixty three<br>With his wife Jenny and their only child Garett who then only had just turned four<br>They went south to sunny Austrealia thousands of miles from their Homeshore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His wife she is with the departed she passed on a few years ago<br>A victim of intestinal cancer her end it was painful and slow<br>He took care of her when she was bed bound a greater love he never knew<br>To each other they were devoted and to each other they remained true.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A gray haired man in his late sixties his better days he surely has seen<br>His son Garett who lives in New Zealand has a son of twenty and a daughter of nineteen<br>And though he lives on his own he seems happy at the local pub he is known to all<br>He enjoys his beer and the sing song and he loves to talk of football.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I once heard him ask the ballad singer sing a song of Fishguard for me<br>The old Town I left in my twenties in Wales by the Atlantic sea<br>The ballad singer did not know any Welsh song so he handed John his guitar<br>And John in his fine singing voice sung a song of Fishguard in distance from here very far.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Welsh accent it is still with him and with him doubtless it will stay<br>Until the Grim Reaper will claim him the one we all must fall to one day<br>He enjoys a drink at the local pub where he is well liked and well known<br>And he never does seem dejected though he is one who lives on his own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=560079" data-title="John From Fishguard de Francis Duggan" data-description="Sing old John a song of his Hometown of Fishguard in Wales by the sea The Town he left when he was in his mid twenties in the Spring of nineteen sixty three With his wife Jenny and their only child Garett who then only had just turned four They we..."></div> </div> </div>

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