🔉Who are you?

Who would you like to be?Nobody else really, only meI would miss my friends and my familyAll the things that we’ve seenAll the things that we’ve doneLiving our lives and having such funMy only wish to set me freeI would…

Tacking in the Wind

Tacking in the Wind My life is changing course againI’m tacking in the windThe storm has blown out and goneI’m looking for dry land To find the safest harbourI might just need a handThe winds of change are blowingCruel and…

Meet me in York

Meet me in York Meet me in St LouisOkay then, York will doI’m not such a romanticI’m Yorkshire through and through I’ll never send you flowersNo long walks in pouring rainI’m really a big softieI just can’t take the pain…

Meat Pies, Scarves And Bovril

(It’s a funny old game) Meat Pies, Scarves and BovrilStanding in the crowdFootball in the seventiesWomen not allowed Travelling with our teamIn our special packFind the oppositionGo on the attack Football in the eightiesLots of tears aboutStadiums come crashing downBlame…

Tha No’s

I knew she was from YorkshireBy the way she just said NOIf she’d been a GeordieIt might have been haway orIf she was from ScotlandIt would certainly be och nayNow, if she was from LondonIt might have been OkBut as…

Yorkshire

Ey up Ow do Welcome to Yorkshire our land with a view And enjoy our fat rascals with a grand Yorkshire brew. When dinner-time calls at precisely midday Its fish and chips or ‘One of each‘ we say. On a…

The Ballad of King Peredurus

By the banks of the Costa that rolls to the sea,Through Moorland that’s purpled with ling.The robes of a man lie on bedrocks of scree,A fool who was born to be King.His claim to the throne on his finger he…

🔉Looking through

On the perfect, clear surfacethat is the mirror of the mind,Thoughts, like fish, break its surface.And, although brief, they simply twinkle.In a flash I know their worth,and I am pulled towards those that beguile.Yet now, when they end, as does…

Champagne in the Rain

When it’s rainingChill ChampagneIt helps to take away the painOf dreary days and endless nights Don’t waste it on a sunny dayWhen all is lovely, fair, and brightDrink it on the rainy daysIt warms the soulAnd brings back the light…