Saturday, 25 February 2023

HUMPH

On Victory in Europe Day

On the eighth of May 1945

Amidst the happy throng

Outside Buck House

He was joyfully playing

“Roll out the Barrel”

On his trumpet

Whilst being perambulated

In a wheelbarrow

And that was how

Lt Humphrey Lyttelton

Inadvertently gave his

First ever performance

On the BBC

Which survives to this day

On the BBC news reels 

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WHEN KITCHENER CALLED

When they hear the recruiter’s call And they take the King’s shilling They’re trained and uniformed And marched towards the killing