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Matt Bianco ‘tween The Styx

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Sneaking out the back door
With a ball under my arm
There’s still homework to be finished
But sure, what harm?

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Half a minute
To race to the park
Where we’d zealously play
Until well after dark

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Whose side are you on?
The oft repeated cry
Switching teams at random
And keepers going ‘fly’

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 More than I can bear
The call to come on home
And Mammy’s exhortation
To Shakespeare’s weighty tome

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 I said “yeh, yeh”
I’ll get me studies done
But it’s not as important as …
The fact that we won!

Notes

Spent last night wallowing in nostalgia, listening to lots of old music, especially one of my favourite bands from the 80’s…
Matt Bianco.

With apologies to Mark Reilly / Mark Fisher / Danny White, the main men behind the combo.

Each stanza in the poem begins with one of their song titles.

Nowadays it’s more ….

Get Outta Your Lazy Bed!

Not sure how I can work 70s faves into a football poem though….
The Shadows, Gordon Lightfoot, ONJ, The Congregation…. 😉

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/matt-bianco-tween-the-styx/