My father had the greatest respect for Jimmy Maxton
because when he died all he left was his house, unlike
many of his contemporaries. ie Mannie Shinwell etc.
Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Robin Hamilton wrote:
> OK, so McLean has come up, and it's all going totally drifty.
>
> But here's a poem (Douglas will get the references, but I doubt gey few
> else.).
>
> Robin
>
> *****************
>
> AN IRREVERENT MEMORIAL TO THE RED CLYDE FOUR
>
> (for Larry Weiss)
>
>
> There were giants on earth in them days, so there were,
> Great huge men like McLean, who could lift
> A dockers' strike in wan hand, the ither
> Chokin a capitalist.
> Or wee Jimmy Maxton, him
> Who was a teacher, scribbling his biography oh Lenin.
>
> Gallagher was no bad either, holding a commie seat
> Way intae the fifties.
>
> But my favourite wis Kirkwood:
> See his autobiography -- photae a him gettin his heid busted
> By the polis in George Square, and the introduction
> Written by Winston Churchill. Magic! Way tae go.
>
>
> ROBIN HAMILTON 6/1/99:28/2/99
>
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