[rubyred]

hell no,, i await the stragglers from Tea in the park to do that :) and morning mizz gooner xx

[rubyred]

@sharongooner wrote:

@rubyred wrote:

Och Shazz,i can blether for Dundee ! the whisky makes me do it ! and it was a great night.Im temped to go along again today,was a great atmosphere in town,everyone spoke to each other from ageing bikers to young punks,they were all there for the music. Seen people i have not seen in years! so was great to catch up.

yah to the Dundee Blues Bonanza organisers i say !

Great days and nights eh. Enjoy them while we can. 8) had a cracker myself. :wink:

Great joy my wee flower.. *hic* ..

[rubyred]

@sunny wrote:

OMG sian was in brum !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i would have brought her a pint hope she got out alive lol

she is probably fast asleep in yer garden shed sunns !

[rubyred]

@minim wrote:

He’ll just start moaning about carbon footprints or sometihng.

VERY true !! no get up and go ;)

[rubyred]

@minim wrote:

@rubyred wrote:

@pete wrote:

Just the 400 mile eh :lol:

car to birmingham then direct flight to dundee city centre from brum . IF u were as random as me,,thats the kind of things I do :)
I forgive ye as i realise it too far ;)

He can probably fly from Bournemouth, don’t let him off that lightly.

cheers cilla :) yeah he can but thats to edinburgh,,we have a tiny airport here and we only go to belfast .london or birmingham.. I thought i was making it easier on him,,bloody men eh ?

[rubyred]

@memory wrote:

@pete wrote:

I’m prepared to randomly stop in

Fancy a curry and a beer Pete?

HOY i seen him first :)

[rubyred]

Is that bloody Sian home yet :)

[rubyred]

Och Shazz,i can blether for Dundee ! the whisky makes me do it ! and it was a great night.Im temped to go along again today,was a great atmosphere in town,everyone spoke to each other from ageing bikers to young punks,they were all there for the music. Seen people i have not seen in years! so was great to catch up.

yah to the Dundee Blues Bonanza organisers i say !

[rubyred]

@toybulldog wrote:

lol RR – you’re so inspiring…….sashays away…………………………….

yeah inspiringly pished.. :) sorry for hi jacking yer thread. what a bletherskite i am . x

[rubyred]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPFjToKuZQM

waltzing matilda, pacifist stylee !

When I was a young man I carried my pack
And I lived the free life of a rover
From the Murrays green basin to the dusty outback
I waltzed my Matilda all over
Then in nineteen fifteen my country said Son
It’s time to stop rambling ’cause there’s work to be done
So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun
And they sent me away to the war
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we sailed away from the quay
And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the cheers
We sailed off to Gallipoli

How well I remember that terrible day
How the blood stained the sand and the water
And how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay
We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter
Johnny Turk he was ready, he primed himself well
He chased us with bullets, he rained us with shells
And in five minutes flat he’d blown us all to hell
Nearly blew us right back to Australia
But the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we stopped to bury our slain
We buried ours and the Turks buried theirs
Then we started all over again

Now those that were left, well we tried to survive
In a mad world of blood, death and fire
And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive
But around me the corpses piled higher
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over tit
And when I woke up in my hospital bed
And saw what it had done, I wished I was dead
Never knew there were worse things than dying
For no more I’ll go waltzing Matilda
All around the green bush far and near
For to hump tent and pegs, a man needs two legs
No more waltzing Matilda for me

So they collected the cripples, the wounded, the maimed
And they shipped us back home to Australia
The armless, the legless, the blind, the insane
Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla
And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay
I looked at the place where my legs used to be
And thank Christ there was nobody waiting for me
To grieve and to mourn and to pity
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As they carried us down the gangway
But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared
Then turned all their faces away

And now every April I sit on my porch
And I watch the parade pass before me
And I watch my old comrades, how proudly they march
Reliving old dreams of past glory
And the old men march slowly, all bent, stiff and sore
The forgotten heroes from a forgotten war
And the young people ask, “What are they marching for?”
And I ask myself the same question
And the band plays Waltzing Matilda
And the old men answer to the call
But year after year their numbers get fewer
Some day no one will march there at all

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
Who’ll come a waltzing Matilda with me
And their ghosts may be heard as you pass the Billabong
Who’ll come-a-waltzing Matilda with me?

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