The Lighthouse Keeper (Billy Bennett Poems)
You ask about these wrinkles, These wrinkles I have on my brow,If you'll give me your kind applause, sir, For ...
Billy Bennett Poems on Night (19 Poems)
The Gambler (Billy Bennett Poems)
A gambler born was young BasilHis finances were all of a latherA wayward boy, but his mother's joyAnd likewise, the ...
The Memory Man (Billy Bennett Poems)
I'm Professor McCann; I'm the memory man.I've a memory no-one would suspect.I remember things you've all forgottenAnd remember what I ...
The Broadcaster (Billy Bennett Poems)
Hello everybody, hell-frightfully-ho, Just tune your radios all in; I am the gent with the Oxford accentBBC Home Service calling.I'm ...
The Tightest Man I Know (Billy Bennett Poems)
The tightest man I know is an Irish Eskimo,He's selling grapes with whiskers on beneath a burning sun.And he's working ...
The Sergeant’s Overcoat (Or The Policeman That Nearly Got Caught) (Billy Bennett Poems)
As the Kaffir is known by his Wig-WamAs a Scotsman is known by his thistleAnd a man from the West ...
The Street Of A Thousand Lanterns 1934 (Billy Bennett Poems)
In the street of the thousand lanternsThe East of Limehouse ReachLived a bland Chinee, who loved the seaFor he was ...
The Sailor (Billy Bennett Poems)
They say a man's known by the company he keepsI think that a lie and a scandal'Cos I've mixed with ...
The Wide Open Spaces (Billy Bennett Poems)
You've heard of the Valley of Klondyke, The cruellest and hardest of places,Where all men are moiling and toiling for ...
The Club Raid (Billy Bennett Poems)
I'm a lover of night-life in LondonWhen I start I can go pretty fastI've blotted me copy book I must ...
The Postman (Billy Bennett Poems)
Three cheers for the postman, the jolly old postman,With letters for Smith, Brown and Kelly, A load in his sack, ...
Mandalay 1 (Billy Bennett Poems)
By an old whitewashed PagodaLooking Eastwards to the WestThere's a Burma girl, from BermondseySits in a sparrow's nest.She's as pretty ...
Black And White Cargo (Billy Bennett Poems)
Deep in the heart of the jungle, Close to the white man's grave,Where the goldfish have beards that stick out ...
Call Of The Yukon (Billy Bennett Poems)
On the Yukon trail thousands fail For only the fit can thriveThe weak and slow are trampled lowAnd only the ...
The Call Of The Yukon (Billy Bennett Poems)
On the Yukon trail thousands fail For only the fit can thriveThe weak and slow are trampled lowAnd only the ...
Mottoes (Billy Bennett Poems)
There are mottoes on the family crests of EnglandSince the Conqueror blew his conk upon our shoresIt's grand to have ...
Devil May Not Care (Billy Bennett Poems)
Fly if your pigtail catches fireDive down the nearest sinkRemember if you wash a pancakeIt's underwear's sure to shrink.Once I ...
She (Billy Bennett Poems)
I'd known her from her "Baby days" And watched her grow apace, Her lovely eyes and glossy hair, And figure-full ...
The Sailor’s Farewell To His Horse. (Billy Bennett Poems)
'Twas a dirty night, 'twas a dirty trickWhen our ship turned over in the AtlanticIt was the schooner Hesperous - ...