No.7

Edith Piaf, Roger McGough, Bette Midler, Jacques Brel, Dylan Thomas, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Robert Burns, Spike Middleton, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Maya Angelou, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Bishop, Shel Silverstein, Walter de la Mare, Eleanor Farjeon, etc.

POLLY GARTER'S SONG

from Under Milk Wood

Dylan Thomas 1914-53

I loved a man whose name was Tom,

He was strong as a bear and two yards long.

I loved a man whose name was Dick,

He was big as a barrel and three feet thick.

And I loved man whose name was Harry,

Six feet tall and sweet as a cherry.

But the one I loved best awake or asleep

Was little Willy Wee and he's six feet deep.

Oh, Tom Dick and Harry were three fine men

And I'll never have such loving again,

But little Willy Wee who took me on his knee,

Little Willy Wee is the man for me.

Now men from every Parish around

Run after me and roll me to the ground,

But whenever I love another man back,

Johnny from the Hill or sailing Jack,

I always think as they do as they please

Of Tom Dick or Harry who were tall as trees.

And most of all I think when I am by their side

Of Little Willy Wee who drowned and died.

Now when the farmers boys on the first fair day

Come down from the hills to drink and be gay,

Before the sun sinks I'll lie there in their arms

For they're good bad boys from the lonely farms.

But I always think as we tumble into bed

Of little Willy Wee who is dead, dead, dead.

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