The Ballad of Corduroy Roy

A Modern Fairy Tale

Commonly called corduroy Roy

On account of his jeans and his jacket

He taught pottery to people with problems

Until he could no longer hack it

And then he won the lottery

He made life changing decisions

No more teaching pottery

He’d make glorious clay pigeons

His neighbours expressed fury and aggro

When his birds covered the roof, lawn and wall

And their anger did not fade

When some reached six feet tall

Was this the end of life’s slow pace

In lovely cosy Meridian Place

With small minded, wary neighbours

Sneering at Roy’s artistic labours

Getting more and more self assured

Roy booked a flight from Luton

He wanted to see a bit of the world

And ended up in Wutan

One day when walking about the town

He came upon a travelling show

He went inside and there he met

An actress called Ling Wan Po

She had both brains and good looks

And enacted scenes from old books

She gave Roy such a thrill

He thought she was really brill

He brought Ling home to Bedfordshire

And bought a house with lots of land

He called the house Crown Jewels

Because it was so grand#

And then Ling started a spa with a nail bar

That specialised in acrylic designs

Until a spammer threatened her

Claiming she’d stolen his lines

He said he’d send the heavies in

zero hour was midnight, first of May

If they wanted to carry on living

There’d better be no delay

The called in the cops who traced him

To a seamy backstreet in Leeds

He was a man they wanted

For previous dirty deeds

So Ling got back to her spa

And Roy carried on with his clay

And as far as I am aware

Thats where they are to this day.

Refer to: Aug 2020 – Colour coded
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