"FANTASTA"
'List* tony tale of a padre new, With a mind quite.’ virgin, pur© . ..;, / and trt*A; jointed us back in uld HZ. . /And now .our buddy heart and head* .?..?/ ■ ‘ ' -' '' • . /’• UI;L i; -'"’k hearts p. o stood amaze in . such untrod ■ ymgle : planned to • ' .„ , '■'■ x ‘ '.••/.•.• ' blaze, . ■ Salvations’ path for all trot .Whether we liked, .that way or not* Ho bo j o in mind ; the surest, - way '; To win men’a hearts, ori so they a av. And nightly, filled our Stomachs A ■ A;•: \. .• * /• . full, ■■ ' Witn cukes nnri; tea,: and likewise ?:/■ j ' bull. On .Sundays though we all marched in To .let- him preach'-to. us of .sin, /.rid /tell; us how we really ought. To mend' ways, or we’d be caught. But this sabbath.’ tack, however » ? bold, - Upon our hearts just left us cold, Ano all his plans to make us 'goal *• Ho could put them with the "Xmas’ ' ’ ' -Pud",'.
no beat time uill his arms were numb Put , it h. 1 s yam aWc were quite ’ . , . ' < , ■ dumb.' Eucii pairing Sunday '-every, verse, ’’ ■ Only made, the . ’Pence worse. / a .?• ‘ - ....< -> ’ ■ ■ •. Until’ one Sunday, in a hymn, ’ ■ ' The, silence ■it' so , angered ' him, , > Tn-ot fury ho could not restrain, A;4 burst into this hot' refrain. ■ /// f ■'' . - • .-; .. ■ ■■ AVith dirty .songs you 'shah© , the - . ‘ , ■■' '.' ■ walls, So to say you. can* is/. just plain All,the' week X f <ll your So now, you -~.---.-g pt jjy have no • ■ ■ //)/' -hut's, ■ ■' / ■, . Sing, you sons of bitches, sing, bake .the -—-welkin ring. All- r ash is. just k. song,. ’ .- Help a nan along, •' • > Cold •horror.;- swept hie seething ■'•' . . ■ . ■ ' •’’ "brain, AruI.^sanity 1 .^sanity he did regain; • To face' our -,•« ho was-' not ‘game/ cut bo’seui his . .head in deepest shame To . his surprise we smiled on him, •now we; obey b.is ’ slightest, whim, Thau padre’c . yame is surely made, »7 , '’-0 call a a shovel a g’bade ♦ «0-0 -9-O -C-0-0-0-0 -0-0- , So our beer wasn’t Waylaid, after all. it wag all u rumour, -o-o-o-c*'o-0 -O-O-O-O-O-0“
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Gun Flash, Issue VIII, 15 February 1943, Page 3
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324"FANTASTA" Gun Flash, Issue VIII, 15 February 1943, Page 3
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