ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

BOXING DAY.

( can be sung to the tune of Lennon/McCartney " Yesterday " )


Boxing Day;
That's when Santa is so far away,
How I wish that he would stay that way,
Oh, I can't wait for Boxing Day.

Suddenly;
All the shops have ditched that Yuletide glee,
There's no little drummer, drumming me,
Yes, Boxing Day comes suddenly.

Why we had to buy, who knows why
but that's the way,
They all think I'm wrong, when I long
for Boxing Day.

Yesterday;
Shopping madness was the game to play.
Is there nowhere I can hide away,
Oh, I can't wait for Boxing Day.

Why we had to buy, who knows why,
but that's the way.
They all think I'm wrong when I long
for Boxing Day.

Yesterday,
Overeating was the game to play.
But I've found a place to hide away,
Oh, I'll come out on Boxing Day.

Yep, fits the melody well Neville. Funny and with a touch of truth. Good one.
Wazza

Boxing Day
Why did I have to be born on that day?
All my friends each year had gone away
I got all my gifts
On Christmas Day

Thanks Wazza, a bit of a reality check.

Thanks Allan. Oh well, like our relatives, we can't choose our birthday

We could hide together Neville

Well put together Scrooge...I mean Neville...sadly I must confess that I agree with you to a certain amount...we have got the grandkids here at the moment though, at least Christmas is a marker for that to happen...

Scrooge was a metaphor by Dickens to comment on British social issues, a bit like Henry Lawson's Faces in the Street.

I reflect with some bemusement on what people might think if they realised how the cute baby in the manger was not so cute when in later life he took a whip to those who had turned a sacred thing into a commercial enterprise, " a den of thieves " he called them.
What a disgrace that Christianity has become one of the biggest commercial enterprises around ( and not only at Christmas time ). Hence I've a different motive from Dickens' character, I don't want to encourage the thieves, I'm wary of the whip.

Then of course comes New Years day - and then...


Yes, well though out Neville.

Terry

Thanks Terry. We get to New Years Day before you westies