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| The Cutlerfish | |
| By Talisker | ||||||
| 24 August 2006 | ||||||
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Some kind reviewer suggested that some of my work was reminicent of the late, great Ivor Cutler. I was flattered and felt that I must try to pen a tribute piece - this is it. The "poem" can be sung to a tune of the reader's choosing. I love writing nonsense - its so liberating. Oli The Cutlerfish The Cutlerfish makes a very fine dish, Best stuffed with wild haggis, From the opium dens of Chinatown, To the gin-joints of Caracas. (Chorus) With a hee-der-um, hoh-der-um, high-der-um-hey! With a hee-der-um, hoh-der-um, haddie! The ivory cutlery must always be used! The napkins be always of plaidie! The Cutlerfish must be captured alive, And placed in an old Irish skillet, Then fried in a knob of elbow grease, And enough English Bitter to kill it. With a hee-der-um, hoh-der-um...etc.. If a Cutlerfish is his very last wish, A condemned man should never regret it, It has never been caught, can never be bought, So should take them a while to get it. With a hee-der-um, hoh-der-um...etc... If one turns up late at Billingsgate, Bright and early one latterday morning, Its the rarest of joys to hear silence for noise, And to witness the Cutlerfish spawning! With a hee-der-um, hoh-der-um...etc...
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