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BrummaGEM’s BEST A few more Brum Poems by the Brummie Bard
More #BrumPoems by the #BrummieBard Keith Bracey @1truclaretnblu
Some more poems inspired by Birmingham by the Brummie Bard: Keith Bracey
THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT
For ‘Grand Designs’ or ‘The Motor Show’
Where in Birmingham does one go?
The NIA or NEC?
Look around: So much to see!
The Hippodrome for Pantomime
The Alex for Musicals with Song and Rhyme
Orchestral Music at Symphony Hall
Or a Play at The Rep, which is just next door!
For Concerts performed after dark
Visit St Andrew’s or Villa Park
Cultural Events at Aston’s ‘Drum’
Or Birmingham Royal Ballet for Dance and Fun
Art Exhibitions at Birmingham Museum
Join Long Queues to go and see ‘em
The Magnificent Organ in Hansom’s Town Hall
Played for the ‘Three Choirs Festival’
Venues to View, Places to Stay
Birmingham’s THE City to visit TODAY!
THE STORY OF ADAM AND EVE
GOD made Adam from a ‘Handful of Dirt’,
GAVE him Animals to name……not to Hurt,
PLACED him…
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BrummaGEM’s BEST A few more Brum Poems by the Brummie Bard
Some more poems inspired by Birmingham by the Brummie Bard: Keith Bracey
THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT
For ‘Grand Designs’ or ‘The Motor Show’
Where in Birmingham does one go?
The NIA or NEC?
Look around: So much to see!
The Hippodrome for Pantomime
The Alex for Musicals with Song and Rhyme
Orchestral Music at Symphony Hall
Or a Play at The Rep, which is just next door!
For Concerts performed after dark
Visit St Andrew’s or Villa Park
Cultural Events at Aston’s ‘Drum’
Or Birmingham Royal Ballet for Dance and Fun
Art Exhibitions at Birmingham Museum
Join Long Queues to go and see ‘em
The Magnificent Organ in Hansom’s Town Hall
Played for the ‘Three Choirs Festival’
Venues to View, Places to Stay
Birmingham’s THE City to visit TODAY!
THE STORY OF ADAM AND EVE
GOD made Adam from a ‘Handful of Dirt’,
GAVE him Animals to name……not to Hurt,
PLACED him in a Garden that was PARADISE,
ADAM said EDEN was very NICE,
THE problem was……he was SOOOO Alone,
SO GOD made EVE from HIS rib bone,
THE couple Loved GOD and did obey,
THEY listened hard when HE had HIS say,
THE food in EDEN is good to eat,
EVERYTHING is ripe, fresh and sweet,
THE fruit from THAT tree shows GOOD and BAD
IF you eat THAT fruit, IT will make me MAD,
EVE went walking in THE GARDEN one day,
WHEN SATAN, The Serpent came and had HIS say,
THE fruit from THAT tree will make YOU wise,
TRY IT and share some, he did advise,
EVE and ADAM both ate the FRUIT,
THEN realised they were in their BIRTHDAY SUIT,
WHEN GOD called they were SOOOO ashamed,
EVE and The Serpent were BOTH blamed,
GOD was SAD and gave HIS command,
From this PARADISE you BOTH are banned.
THISTLES and WEEDS will grow from the EARTH,
EVE you will suffer, when you give BIRTH.
SNAKES and HUMANS will always FIGHT,
FEET will STAMP and FANGS will BITE,
ADAM and EVE were banished to their FATE,
GOD placed ANGELS to guard EDEN’S GATE,
NOT allowed to forget what they had DONE,
THE COUPLE worked HARD and HAD two SONS,
A FARMER called CAIN and HIS BROTHER ABEL,
BUT the LIVES of these TWO MEN is another SAD FABLE.
Keith Bracey Birmingham-born Father of Adam & Sarah
EDGBASTON – THE HOME OF TENNIS
Edgbaston is the place
Where they serve up many an Ace
Invented by Major Harry Gem:
A game for lithe athletic men
At 8 Ampton Road: ‘Fairlight’
You’d see rubber balls in flight
Men and women both
They’d hit balls with all their might
In clothing… Oh so bright!
A game played in Lilywhites
As played on a manicured lawn
In the summer of 1859
Young men and women courting
Eating, drinking, laughing
Eligible bachelors and young maidens
Playing on a mown green grass court
‘Good shot sir!’… they’d shout
With many a lascivious thought
The young women they did ‘Glow’
As they knocked balls to and fro
Over a rudimentary net
With strawberries and cream…..you bet!
Lawn tennis started to grow
Into the game that we now all know
Fred Perry, Bunny Austin,
Ann Jones, Virginia Wade
Andy Murray and Sue Barker
Grand Slam Champions were made
So next time you’re in Birmingham
Recall Edgbaston’s Major Gem
And the Great Game that he gave us:
‘Game, Set and Match: Amen!’
Keith Bracey Birmingham Tennis Fan and Edgbastonian where Tennis was ‘Madein Birmingham’ at 8 Ampton Road by Major Harry Gem & Augurio Perera
PLAYED IN BIRMINGHAM
Blues, Bears, Barons
Villains, Wasps and Wolves
Harriers, Saddlers, Bullets
Baggies, Bees and Bulls
Four Football grounds to visit
Four home team strips to buy
Colourful scarves round cold necks
Or for Fans to hold up high
The oval ball pulls in the crowds at Moseley RFC
For mucky rucks and scrums so tough
Such spectacular tries to see
Their followers stand together
With drinks held in their hand
They roar and sing to urge their boys
Uniting Rugby in their stand
Against violence in the land
It’s cricket in the summer
To Edgbaston Fans will go
Watching men in white in a crease with bat
A five dayer seems oh……so slow
The Twenty Twenty is much more fun
The Ball flies everywhere
There are wickets, sixes and catches
As we cheer on Birmingham Bears
Keith Bracey #Villain #Bear and #MoseMan
BIRMINGHAM’S ONLY OLYMPIC LAWN TENNIS CHAMPION: JOHN BOLAND
BIRMINGHAM’S ONLY OLYMPIC LAWN TENNIS CHAMPION: JOHN BOLAND
This is an adjunct to my previous post about Cardinal John Henry Newman and Pope Benedict’s visit to Birmingham in 2010 to canonize Cardinal Newman
BIRMINGHAM’S ONLY OLYMPIC TENNIS CHAMPION
Yesterday I was shopping in my home town of Bearwood to the west of Birmingham City Centre along the A456 Hagley Road going out towards junction 3 of the M5.
The drive out of Birmingham along the Hagley Road takes you through the leafy suburb of Edgbaston where Lawn Tennis was invented in the back garden of 8 Ampton Road back in 1859 by The Clerk to Birmingham Magistrates Major Harry Gem who played the first game of lawn tennis at the home of his Spanish friend Augurio Perera.
Further along the Hagley Road, near The Ivy Bush pub stands the Birmingham Oratory which was once a school which took in Birmingham orphans, following the Teachings of the Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman, who founded The Oxford Movement and then turned to The Roman Catholic Faith.
Possibly the most famous orphan brought up by The…
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Challenges to Utilitarian Education: Arnold & Newman…
Challenges to Utilitarian Education: Arnold & Newman…
Cardinal John Henry Newman who founded the Anglican Oxford Movement but then converted to Roman Catholicism and set up the Birmingham Oratory to tend to the needs of the poor and destitute of Ladywood, Hockley and Brookvale in Birmingham. When Pope Benedict visited Birmingham in 2010 to canonise Cardinal Newman with a huge convocation at Cofton Park in Longbridge in Birmingham where the Rover Car Plant used to make automobiles near Northfield as Newman is buried in Rednal nearby in Birmingham near to the site of a huge retail development at Great Park in Rubery in South Birmingham. JRR Tolkien’s grand nephew Tim Tolkien sculpted a metal statue of Cardinal John Henry Newman to commemorate this huge Roman Catholic religious event in Birmingham when we were hosts to the Pontiff and Leader of the world’s Roman Catholics which stands in Cofton Park in Lickey to this day…….Keith Bracey
This week we explored the ways in which writers and artists in the Victorian Age tried to undermine the prevailing utilitarian views on education. We have seen this presented very strongly in Charles Dickens’ Hard Times with his emphasis on the importance of Wonder and Imagination as counters to a world run on facts.
Matthew Arnold takes up Dickens’s cudgels with his radical vision of the way that a young Oxford Scholar decides to give up his ambition for “preferment” (prefer me! prefer me!) and embarks on a quest to learn the wisdom of the gypsies. And in the process, Matthew Arnold gives voice to his sense of what is so wrong with the stressed out way that modern people (including us!!) lead their lives.
John Henry (Cardinal) Newman, in very different ways repeats this message, but within the hallowed halls of the University. Newman believes that the University is a…
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BrummaGEM Song – 10 Birmingham Poems
BrummaGEM Song – 10 Birmingham Poems
Ten #Birmingham #BrumPoems by the #BrummieBard Keith Bracey @1truclaretnblu
BRUMMAGEM’S SONG
If you’ve never been to Birmingham then you ought ta……….
It’s a grand city made up of many a quarter………
There is jewellery to be sold, diamonds, platinum and gold
Boulton’s silver to assay, precious gems from far away.
Guns were made nearby, helping soldiers fight and die
In the English Civil War we made musket, cannon and ball
A more powerful Lewis gun helped the British beat the Hun.
Mr Webley made a revolver fired by many a pitiful soldier
On a lighter note in The Theatre Quarter
The stage is set for talented daughters
The Rep, the Alex and Hippodrome…..
Encourage performers to make Birmingham their own
Chaplin, Burton and Olivier
Travelled here to perform their plays
Musicals, ballets and pantomime
Ensure cultural visitors have a good time
The NEC and NIA have changed their names along the way
The Good Food Show, Crufts and fashion…
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BrummaGEM Song – 10 Birmingham Poems
BRUMMAGEM’S SONG
If you’ve never been to Birmingham then you ought ta……….
It’s a grand city made up of many a quarter………
There is jewellery to be sold, diamonds, platinum and gold
Boulton’s silver to assay, precious gems from far away.
Guns were made nearby, helping soldiers fight and die
In the English Civil War we made musket, cannon and ball
A more powerful Lewis gun helped the British beat the Hun.
Mr Webley made a revolver fired by many a pitiful soldier
On a lighter note in The Theatre Quarter
The stage is set for talented daughters
The Rep, the Alex and Hippodrome…..
Encourage performers to make Birmingham their own
Chaplin, Burton and Olivier
Travelled here to perform their plays
Musicals, ballets and pantomime
Ensure cultural visitors have a good time
The NEC and NIA have changed their names along the way
The Good Food Show, Crufts and fashion galore
Ensure our visitors come back for more
In the Symphony Hall there was often a battle
Between the CBSO and Sir Simon Rattle
The Chinese Quarter is colourful and bright
A fantastic place to go out at night
Stir-fried noodles, a tantalising odour
A grand Dragon Parade from Wing Yip’s Pagoda.
The Balti Belt, full of saris and spices
Tasty Asian food cooked with different rices
An area to visit to sample a curry,
At Adil’s or Imran’s there’s no need to hurry
Bring your own beer, share various starters
Poppadoms, Pakoras, Aloo with tomatoes
A ‘curry in a bucket’ naan size of a table
Mild, medium or hot, eat it all, if you’re able.
Our City has Cadbury, Jaguar Land Rover too,
Speedway, rugby, and cricket for you
A passion for sport, you can hear the roar
For a goal scored by Blues or Villa football.
Indoor and outdoor, The Bull Ring Markets
Sell everything from cheese to carpets
The Germans come at Christmas time
Bringing Bratwurst, Schnitzel and Gluhwein
Birmingham has ‘More Canals than Venice’
We also invented the game of lawn tennis.
The Botanical Gardens and Cannon Hill Park
Have flowers and lawns, hosting shows: ‘What a lark!’
An airport, coach and New Street Station
Make us the “Centre of our Nation”
To travel by car to any function
You may have to negotiate Spaghetti Junction!!!!!
The ‘Stroll from St Philip’s to St Paul’s’
Where Boulton and Watt occupied the pew stalls
Pugin’s St Chad’s, the Roman Catholic Cathedral
Anglican St Martin’s, on the steps to the bronze Bull
The Kennedy Memorial near Digbeth’s Custard Factory,
Healed the wounds of the Irish after the Birmingham atrocity
The Rotunda stood proud, tall and round
Blown to pieces with ‘The Tavern in the Town.’
The City recovered, no flags at half mast
Brummies look FORWARD, don’t dwell on the past
Our mixture of cultures live well together
Our heritage, our history will go on forever.
GOLDEN RINGS FROM THE JEWELLERY QUARTER
The Birmingham Jewellery Quarter
Is present in our Home
Enclosed in the Engagement Ring
I am pleased to call my own.
Twelve Diamonds round a Ruby,
Lovingly set in Gold
Handmade by Excellent Craftsmen
To wear till I grow old
Hannah Hill from Dodd & Co
Watched our Love flourish and grow
This Beautiful Ring she designed for us
For a Proposal made with minimal fuss,
Two Circles of Gold followed soon after
Made by her brilliant Jewellery Crafter
After 25 years of Married Life
These Rings bind us together as Man and Wife
THE BATTLE OF BIRMINGHAM
Brum is Burning, Brum is Burning
Fire…..Fire……Fire…..Fire
Charles Prince Rupert
Was marauding
Throughout the Town
Throughout the Town
Brum was Roundhead
Not for Royalists….
Ride them down…..
Ride them down…..
Rupert killed them
Torched their houses
For supporting
Parliament…..
NOT the Crown
Many murdered…..
Many murdered…..
By Rupert’s Cavalry
Cut them down
Yet at Shireland
Was a Skirmish
Where Earl Denbigh
Met his end
Shot him down
Shot him down
No Justice
No Justice
For Brummagem
For Brummagem!
Brum is Burning
Brum is Burning
Fire….Fire…..Fire…Fire
Battle’s over
Battle’s over
Poor Birmingham
Birmingham……….
Keith Bracey, Roundhead rather than Cavalier
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 ‘Golden Pond’
Stir-Fried Noodles
And Chicken Feet
Fed to me by Miss Chan
What a Fantastic Feat!
To attract the Chinese
To assemble MG’s
At Longbridge
Premier Wen Jiao Bao
He came to Brum
In Twenty Eleven to visit the Chinamen
After MG Rover went ‘Belly-up’
In Twenty Oh Six…….
Mike Whitby and Dutton
This ‘Marvellous Man’
‘Mister #Birmingham Development’
SUCH a sad loss…….
As Clive Dutton reported to Mike Whitby: ‘The Boss’
They Launched Brum’s ‘Big City Plan’…..
In Shanghai…..near ‘The Bund’
Hoping to attract Chinese Yuan
To invest in England
To build MG’s in our land……once again!
To save the jobs of many a Brummie man
In October Twenty Fifteen……
Another Chinese Premier came……
Li Xing Ping was his name…….
This Time Georgie Osborne took ‘im oooooop North……
No visit to Longbridge……
This Time for ‘The Man’……
For Brum…..that wasn’t quite in ‘The Big City Plan’……..
I recall in Twenty Ten on Adrian Goldberg’s Radio WM Show…….
Talking with Paul Kehoe of BHX ‘Fame’ about……..
Birmingham’s ‘Twin City’ of Guangzhou……..
About ‘Marketing Birmingham’ to the Chinese……
Using ‘Dear Old Bill Shakespeare’ whom the Chinese love……
As they fly high into Brummagem
High ‘Up Above’…….
Using ‘Whitby’s new runway’…….
To come to the region……
The Chinese Love William Shakespeare…….
His Chinese fans are sooooo ‘Legion’……..
This @BrummieBard……..
“The Greatest West Midlander”………
Has the ‘Power to Attract’…….
More Investment to ‘Brummagem’!
Paul Kehoe poo-pooed mine and Ducker’s idea……
But in Twenty Fourteen
It became CLEAR…….
A ‘No-Brainer’ for ‘BILL’ to Market Birmingham to the Chinese…….
More Money for Brum!!!!!!
DONE IT!…….With Ease…….
NI HAO from this Brummie…….
XIE…..XIE…..on our Lips
Welcomes Chinese to our supermarkets……..Wonderful WING YIPS!
This ‘Man of Fujian’
Came to Brum in The Fifties……
Made it His Home……..
Brum’s Chinese sooooo ‘Thrifty’……..
So it is ‘ZAIJIAN’ from me……..The New @BrummieBard…..
HEY……!!!!!!!…. Paul Kehoe…..IT wasn’t SOOOO hard…….
To Market ‘Dear Birmingham’……..
To The Chinese………
Using ‘Bill Shakespeare’……..
WHAT A MAN from these Shires…..!!!!!!!
The World’s GREATEST Playwright……..
A “MAN FOR ALL SEASONS”………
OUR “BIGGEST ATTRACTION”……
FOR SOOOOO MANY REASONS…..
As “Bill’s” Plays are about…….
Our Common Humanity……..
MACBETH’s ‘Vain Death’…….
And LEAR’s ‘Huge Vanity’……..
THE PLAYERS Do ‘Strut the World’s Stage’…….
In Stratford Town……….
Just Twenty – Five Miles……..
From CHINATOWN……….!!!!!!!!!
Keith Bracey @BrummieBard #Shakespearean Sinophile
Balti Belt n Braceys
Ladypool Road or Stoney Lane
No two Curries are the same
Sizzling Tandoori, Tikka too
Balti ‘Buckets’ or Vindaloo
Kashmiri Spices, Herbs and Veg
Chapatis, Roti or Naan Bread
Adil, Imran’s, where will you go…..?
It’s the ‘Taste of Birmingham’ you know
The Colourful Shops in vibrant Streets
Window displays of cut-up Sweets
Silky Saris, Shalwaar Kameez
Bags and Jewellery that will please
Wedding venues for Love’s Celebration
Attended by Guests from every Nation
For Flavours tasted and beautiful odours smelt
I’ve often visited Birmingham’s Balti Belt……..
Keith Bracey Birmingham’s Balti and Curry Lover
PLAYED IN BIRMINGHAM
Blues, Bears, Barons
Villains, Wasps and Wolves
Harriers, Saddlers, Bullets
Baggies, Bees and Bulls
Four Football grounds to visit
Four home team strips to buy
Colourful scarves round cold necks
Or for Fans to hold up high
The oval ball pulls in the crowds at Moseley RFC
For mucky rucks and scrums so tough
Such spectacular tries to see
Their followers stand together
With drinks held in their hand
They roar and sing to urge their boys
Uniting Rugby in their stand
Against violence in the land
It’s cricket in the summer
To Edgbaston Fans will go
Watching men in white in a crease with bat
A five dayer seems oh……so slow
The Twenty Twenty is much more fun
The Ball flies everywhere
There are wickets, sixes and catches
As we cheer on Birmingham Bears
Keith Bracey #Villain #Bear and #MoseleyMan
Brummagem’s Bands
Birmingham has produced the Biggest Bands
With Fabulous Songs and Adoring Fans
Famous in Europe and the USA
Outstanding Music here to stay
Rock from Black Sabbath and Judas Priest
Was Heavy and Loud, to say the least
The Move had ‘Flowers in the Rain’
First Record on Radio One, they claim
Dexy’s sang: ‘Come on Eileen’
The Dance Floor Anthem for Love’s Young Dream
UB40 had a Kitchen with a Rat
While Sabbath’s Ozzy bit the Head off a Bat
The Dutchie was passed by Musical Youth
Duran Duran: ‘Hungry Like the Wolf’
Led Zeppelin climbed a ‘Stairway to Heaven’
The World’s Greatest Band in ‘77
Electric Lights inspired Jeff Lynne
Moody Blues dressed in White Satin
Would Christmas be the same without Wizzard and Slade?
Performing the Music Midlands’ Bands Made!
Keith Bracey: Led Zeppelin, The Move, ELO, Black Sabbath and The Moody Blues
BIRMINGHAM: THE UNIVERSITY OF LIFE
Back in Nineteen Seventy Six
When the Hot Sun baked the broiling Bricks
And Denis Howell MP for Small Heath
Was ‘Minister for Drought’ in the searing heat
He urged us all to bathe together
And not run round ‘Hell for Leather’
I went from Birmingham Grammar School Boy
To the University in Edgbaston with Unbridled Joy
This Bright but Callow Brummie Lad
Became a Birmingham Undergrad
Studying B.Com in the Muirhead Tower
Where The Paternoster Lifts ran Hour after Hour
Perpetual Motion taking ‘Tortured Souls’
To jump off this Brutalist Muirhead Coil
When Exams in Accounts became too much to Toil
Doctor Peter Cain my ancient Tutor
Urged this Fresh man to use the first Punch-Card Computer
This Student donned a Great Coat and Scarf
And would do anything for a ‘Belly Laugh’
Like Read the Communist Manifesto
At Peter Cain’s educated behest….Oh!
Marx and Engels to the Fore
As all us Students fought ‘The Class War’!
David Lodge’s ‘Nice Work’ if you can gerrit…..?
Made University Life seem so decrepit
To study Accounts was my Forte
Or so I often thought…..Eh….?
But when The Doubts began to creep in
And my ‘Number Blindness’ started to seep in
To my youthful callow consciousness
With such dire unfortunate consequences
My exam time worry started to show
And I was struck such a Mortal Blow
When I failed my Exams in Statistics and Maths
But Tutor Cain set me on a Different Path
To study Law and forget the Math
Peter told me I still had a Bright Future
No longer for me the Statistical Torture!
For this Rugby-Playing Muddied Oaf
On the Bournbrook pitches…. I used my Loaf
And played for the University First Fifteen
As an Eighteen Year Old Flyaway Flanker
I made my debut for my Alma Mater
Where my Rugby defined me as a Young Man
Without any sort of discernible plan
The First Fifteen I played in October ‘76
Before I even made my debut for The Old Dix!!!!!
Julia Honeychurch was my squeeze
Back in Strathcona we ‘Shot the Breeze’!
Mick’s Café’s Race and Carnival
Was what defined me as a pal
A ‘Belly-Buster Breakfast’ and a pint of Guinness
The aim not to throw up at the Breathless Finish
A Two Mile Run from the Student’s Union
Down to Heeley Road and a date with Oblivion
Where Bacon and Egg were downed with Glee
Before running back to ‘The Mermaid in The See’
That’s when it all went ‘Pete Tong’ for me
As I threw up and my Salad Days
Became Carrots and Peas
And I was in an Alcoholic Daze
While on my knees
All good fun to raise ‘Cash for Carnival’
I was no longer a ‘Freshman Virgin’ in High Hall….!!!!!
Keith Bracey Unfortunate Birmingham University Undergraduate in 1976.
FOR REBECCA TERESA WOODLOCK
To Darling Dear Rebecca
A Poem just to say
That Santa won’t forget You
When He’s on His Merry Way
A Bright Light will be shining
To Light His Way Above
He will find you in The Stars
Surrounded by God’s Love
You changed my Life in Many Ways
Although our Time was Brief
From Autumn into Winter
I’ve struggled with my Grief
Now this Sad Year is Ending
A New One soon to Come
I know that you are Peaceful
My Duty has been Done
So ‘Merry Christmas’ to You
And a Happy New Year too
From All of Us at Hallfield
Who Are Deeply Missing You……..
Apologies to South African Folk Singer Whistling Roger Whitaker and his 1970’s Christmas hit: Durham Town: This is my #BrumPoem about my home town Bearwood
BEARWOOD TOWN
I aye gunner leave ‘ole Bearwood Town…..
I aye gunner leave ‘ole Bearwood Town…..
I aye gunner leave ‘ole Bearwood Town…..
COZ it aye tha sorta place ter gemme darn…..
Councillors Piper, Eling n Jaron
Do soo much fer are Bearwood Mon
Loike Billy Spake
Does fer thee ‘ole Black Countray
Smerrick is Richard Marshall’s patch…..
This local Councillor does Sooo Mutch…..
Fer Bearwood n Smerrick…..
Smethwick in a Stew n Lightwoods Park……and House…..
Juss two of ‘is projects……Ooh worra lark……!!!
I, and others from ‘is Bearwood Crew…..
Did Volunteer…..
Fer Smethwick in a Stew…..
As a fantastic reward fer uz all…..
Who Volunteer fer are Bearwood…..
‘N’……What’s more…..We did Volunteer…..
Fer tha Beer on tha Black Countray Buzz…..
Juss a few yers agoo the Sandon Road “SIX”
Did trundle too n fro…..
With thee ‘Aglee Rowd crowd
From the 6 Terminus on Sandon Rowd…..Tha Buzz
Past Saint Chad’s….where I was was barn
Way back in ’58…..
Lookin’ All ferlarn…..
As “A Babe in Arms”…..
I wuz taerken,’Ome…..
Ter live in a Flat…..
Above 67…..Three Shires Oak Road…..
The CHOP SUEY BAR…..
Chinese Food…..MADE IN ‘EAVEN…..!!!!
ME Mom n Dad Dot n Lez…..
Did scraerpe tergether enough CASH
Ter raise a Deposit fer BRUM MUNICIPAL BANK
At the top of Willow Ave…..
It wuz their prank…..
.
Ter buoy an ‘Owse…..
In Willow Ave…..
The first thee ‘ad with an indoor LAV…..
ME BRACEY FAMILY…..
Did scrimp n save…..
Me Mom n Dad did werk sooo ‘Ard…..
Me Mom Dot at the Midland Red…..
In Rutland Road doin’ overtime on a’ addin’ machine…..
Werkin’ till she fell in ter ‘er bed…..
Ter buoy this ‘Owse…..
THEY WERE SOOO BRAVE THA BRACEYS…..!!!!!
ME MOM N DAD THA BRACEYS DOT N LEZ….!!!!!
KEITH BRACEY
#BrummieBard
Bearwoodian Keith Bracey
Twitter:@1truclaretnblu
#BearwoodBard appearing on the Co-op stage at the Bearwood Street Festival on Sunday 11th June 2017 where I shall be performing some of my #BrumPoems
Email: keithbracey1@gmail.com
Keith Bracey the Brummie Bard Birmingham & Black Country poet & writer 