thanks Bill you old Tarzan with me it was before we had TV those
exciting exotic American comics
the had a nice smell too ! just wonder not sure about last verse
On 18/02/2020 21:31, Bill Wootton wrote:
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> Why don’t you go and play outside
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> less a question than a Mum instruction
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> to Jungle Jim-on-TV-watching me
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> Before environment, there was outside
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> Land of apricot trees, grass, concrete, sky
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> Monochromed eyes adjust blinkingly to colour
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> Pick up a footy from under the clothesline
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> Bounce it a few times. What would Bomba do?
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> Where are the swinging vines?
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> Tarzan lived outside, even slept in trees
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> I felt more outside watching him and safari-suited men
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> with pith helmets than in the backyard
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> Ah-woo, ah wooh woo wooh
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> mysterious deep African jungle sound
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> I was later told was a kookaburra
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> But ex-Olympian Johnny Weissmuller
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> did all his own swimming stunts
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> and patented his yell for all Tarzans to come
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> Backyard cluttered with excess from inside
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> What’s this cracked tabletop doing out here?
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> Best deal with it with this old hammer
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> Now what? Bit junglier down the side
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> Ah, fuchsias. Tear off a branchlet
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> Fold it near the flower, aim and shoot!
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> In between the tool shed and the garage
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> squelch through solid Wandering Jew
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> to the fence - end of my outside
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> How did that marble top get smashed?
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> Dad demanded, after work
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> Just going outside to play, Mum
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> bw
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