WICKIE’S SONG
as the Workshops mas-cut I fear that my lot Is a dog’s life, alas and x ■ alack, And it preys on my mind every morning to find, On awaking, the outlook is Black. But I’m never too proud to mix with the crowd Though of course I find some of them tryin’ . I think that Lord Laughton is frightfully spurtin’ I don’t think so much of Count Bryan. Now the W.0., at the head of our show \ . Arthur Lindsay, is really.;, surprisin’ r ’ as he chases the- nub on to job after job. ml think they call this organisin’ . I admire all the st, Cherry Barnard and Best, Though of course I make sone reservations, And it’s really not true to assert as some du,. They descend from my female relations.. Askew, Miller at least, Rayner 'walker and Feast, Boyd and Westwood are merry and gay, And I like McGuire’ s’* shout as from work he turns out Of “Well tick old chadpie, JILL. Day. ? J. .1’
But I’ll swear as I live that the service we give, Is the finest in all the South Seas, To remember, I’ll trouble we’re N. Z. O.W. , Don’t call us the L.A.D. i -please ! ------------ • WHO’S IN THE TEAM ???? '? j Our Illustrious .Batmen j No U Pte HH Montgomery j Pte Montgomery is usually ‘ known as Monty. Possibly he i has Christian names but no ■ one has ever heard them. He j . is not very well known to I must of the present Gamp per j ’ Sonnel as he docs nut actual i In live on the premises*. -Leads u very secluded life. Is a great lover of animals ; and displayed a keen intense i in Myrtle’s progress. Has a I kitten named George of which j he is very proud. However we Would remind Monty in the words of our Artist BC South ee ” You can’t get kittens from a cat named George. u
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Transit Tramp, Volume 1, Issue 4, 2 November 1943, Page 4
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