POEM:
FLEURS DU MAL
Baudelaire, you devil,
she knows you well.
You bring her heaven and hell
with your flowers of evil.
The stairs of the bordello climb.
Find she has rhythm, you have rhyme.
SONG LYRIC:
OLD KING COLE
Old king Cole
he didn't know his role
Was it manly, my dear?
No it wasn't clear
Oh but those keys
How they caught her
They tinkled, Mr Porter
They tinkled, Mr Porter
A guy knew him well
Said he was a Tinkerbell
and wasn't the piano grand?
Fly me to Never Never Land
Oh but etc (twice)
Old king etc
Oh but etc (twice)
SONG LYRIC:
BOVARY'S BUTTERFLY
All the forms are tasty-sweet
All the shapes she wants to eat
Give her flesh, give her meat
Feed the tiger beneath the sheet
Sensual dreams
meet her mind's eye
Caterpillar die
Mean caterpillar die
Break out Bovary's butterfly
What were you thinking about Gustav?
Your saucy dreams I must have
Your dreamy thoughts I want to posess
where I lie in my undress
Sensual etc
So she said
to herself in bed
All etc
Sensual etc
POEMS:
YES-PRETTY-CHINESE-LADY-
IN-THE-PALM-OF-MY-HAND
She's my pretty-neighbour
and she is in demand,
yet I'm her favourite
you will understand.
Bring out the cups and sake,
I've got china in my hand.
A-KRAKEN-YES
Thought I saw something,
but I was mistaken.
You've the forehead and arms
of the kraken.
It is no big brain.
To yourself arms keep.
Glad you're found-out
before I got too deep.
A BRITISH-BUTTERFLY-YES
You danced together
like in The King And I.
But he turned out to be
a peacock-butterfly.
Ah yes rose-flower
you're not in Siam.
On a further pretty-rose
does he go lordly land.
SONG LYRIC:
FEMME FATALE
You're a Cleo-type beauty
A Cleo-type beauty are you
But you're so cruel
Oh you're so cruel
Lady snake
and part vampire
Make a fool's heart burn
with desire
Make a fool's heart burn
with desire
Baby it's a puzzling one
the men that you walk upon
They lay at your feet
while I pass in the street
Lady snake etc
You're a etc
Lady snake etc
POEM:
CHEAP-CHARLIE-TYPE-POET
To the lovely-girls
goes my very heart.
I am open to them.
I'm a male-tart.
Find that I'm cheap.
Yes cheap is me.
The times I am not
are when I'm free.
POEM:
BRIEF-LIFE-STORY
Yes-I-was-born
at-the-age-of-five.
Life-was-a-picture-book
and-the-words-were-very-alive.
POEMS:
PEAFOWL-FIXATION
The peacock's fan,
a solar disc,
a karmic wheel,
a frisky peahen's fix.
PANDEMICAL-PAM
Pamdemic
you are everywhere.
Pamdemic
get out of my hair.
Pamdemic
you're in my underwear.
Pamdemic,
girl I utterly-despair.
SNOWY-SIBERIA-YES
Siberian fur,
up she'll jack.
An ice-cold-pussy
on warming-white-smack.
Find her in a cul-de-sac
prone, not lying on her back.
Pete Chambers, as ever, has been busy putting Coventry music in general and Two Tone in particular on the map in Coventry. Back in 2003 when I took my kids back to Coventry and showed them around the place I grew up, there was plenty going on to establish a Coventry heritage trail but nothing to show for all the music that has come out of the city. Since then Pete has established a Two Tone Trail with a series of plaques on buildings that still remain and much more.On top of that there are his books and the More than Two Tones exhibition. Here are a few photos from Pete's Facebook site to give a taste to those who haven't seen this development.
SONG LYRIC:
LEATHER NUN
From an adult comic-book
the girl has sprung
Her alter ego
is The Leather Nun
Repent, repent
or be undone
The Leather Nun
has got you on the run
but you run to her
Idolization turns you on
Your back all leathery
from the virgin's scourge
on the polish of her boots
you now crave to gorge
What a strange bonding
do you and she forge
The Leather Nun etc
From an etc
The Leather Nun etc
SONG LYRICS:
BEAUTIFUL FLAME
He reaches to touch you
and he is transformed
Burning more than his fingers
the guy is reborn
A phoenix from his own ashes
A sun in a new morn
What's in a name?
Beautiful Flame
What's in a name?
Beautiful Flame
Flame red is your hair
Green fire are your eyes
You're a ruby, you're an emerald
You're a treasure, you're his prize
He's a phoenix, he's a sun
that is touching the skies
What's in etc
He reaches etc
What's in etc
NAFF OFF (BORING OLD FART)
You think you're a toff
Go on, naff off
You're just a bof
You're just a bof
You've a big mouth
like Mr Geldoff
It sounds so squeaky clean
Did somebody geld them off?
You think etc
But he got things done
did our Sir Bob
though you think yourself
way above "That yob"
You think (twice)
You've etc
You think etc (twice)
SONG LYRIC:
A DANDY AFTER DARK
Looking dandy, looking good
goes for a quick one at some club
Took his name from Hyde Park
Roams the streets after dark
How do y' do m' dear?
Why not come over here?
I'm a foppy fellow in my wear
Of your desires I'll take care
He's an egotistic type of guy
From the females does not shy
His hair is a wild beast's mane
Dandelion is only Hyde's nickname
How do etc
The guy's too quick
He belongs in the nick
He's got her in a corner
Looking dandy etc
How do etc
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