My #Birmingham #Chinatown #Poem : Southside Johnnies & Chinatown Jinks
Southside Johnnies and Chinatown Jinks
Down ‘Olloway ‘Ed
To Wing Yip’s Pagoda
Leading the Way
To Chinatown’s lovely odour
A tasty meal cooked in a Wok
At Chung Ying Garden
We’re ‘Ready to Rock’!
Ming Moon Buffet
All you can eat
As you stroll down the Sidewalk
To Brummagem’s Beat!
The Fox, The Hip
The Back to Backs
All open their Doors to
Johnnies in Slacks
Southside’s Silver Rhino
Surveys…… all she can see
From the slate grey roofs above
The many Theatre-goers with Glee!
David Bintley’s Royal Ballet
Formerly Sadler’s Wells
Puts on ‘The Nutcracker’
For many well-heeled ‘Swells’
Every Christmas……..
David’s ‘Glittering Show’
Adorns Chinatown
With lots of fake Snow!
The young Bucks from Elmhurst School for Dance
Apprentice lithe ‘Dancers’ preen and prance……..
The Hip’s huge Stage
The Largest in the Land
Welcomes the UK’s biggest Pantomime
And Plays, Musicals and Bands
That Adorn Chinatown
On…
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