Today's Sunday Telegraph (again) on p.17 has the
following verses by Peter Pindar in his "Rhyme &
Reason" column
With best regards
David PAge
Harrow
"Tommy in the 21st Century"
Queen's speech praises Armed Forces
With apologies to Rudyard Kipling)
We aren't made for cool Britannia; we leave boot marks
on the floor,
We don't walk like Peter Mandelson or talk quite like
Jack Straw.
Call us "forces of conservatism" if it suits your turn
But we're off like some world fire brigade when
flash-points
start to burn.
Yes it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' spend less on
defence
But who walks the streets of Basra when the air is
getting tense?
When the air is getting tense, boys, from Kabul to
Kosovo
Who'll say goodbye to wife and kids, and shoulder pack
and go?
The Queen, she's sat in Windsor now for 50 years or
more.
She'll see this government depart like other ones
before.
And Blair and Bush and Chirac make their plans to no
avail
But who remains to serve the Crown when politicians
fail?
O it's Tommy change your values - now diversity's the
game;
But when Christmas leave is cancelled, then whose
tyrants are to blame?
There's tyrants in the mountains, boys, and tyrants in
the sands,
So farewell to wives and risk your lives for them in
foreign lands
Peter Pindar
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