Two poems
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Two poems
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The first three verses, 'when I fell over the horseshoe' are about a lucky charm. The second three verses, 'F for Freddy are being grounded' concerns a crew who finished their tour without ever washing shirts or socks.
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When I fell over the horseshoe
That was nearly as big as me
Sandy asked to borrow it
‘Just for luck you see’
With the horseshoe around his neck
In Lancaster turret so lone
If the call had come to ‘parachute’
He’d have dropped like
The proverbial stone
It wasn’t thanks to the skill of the pilot
Nor thanks to the rest of the crew
The reason that safely they finished their tour
Was thanks to that dirty horseshoe!
F for Freddy are being grounded
Now they’ve finished their tour
F for Freddy have just expounded
How they accomplished this lucky score
‘We’ve made our shirts and socks last
For these twenty weeks past
If we’d changed them, for certain
We’d have gone for a Burton’
F for Freddy are viewed with suspicion
By fastidious Corporal Wilf
‘Call that superstition
I would call it filth’!!
That was nearly as big as me
Sandy asked to borrow it
‘Just for luck you see’
With the horseshoe around his neck
In Lancaster turret so lone
If the call had come to ‘parachute’
He’d have dropped like
The proverbial stone
It wasn’t thanks to the skill of the pilot
Nor thanks to the rest of the crew
The reason that safely they finished their tour
Was thanks to that dirty horseshoe!
F for Freddy are being grounded
Now they’ve finished their tour
F for Freddy have just expounded
How they accomplished this lucky score
‘We’ve made our shirts and socks last
For these twenty weeks past
If we’d changed them, for certain
We’d have gone for a Burton’
F for Freddy are viewed with suspicion
By fastidious Corporal Wilf
‘Call that superstition
I would call it filth’!!
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“Two poems,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed July 22, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/39751.
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