Sunday, December 25, 2011

Merry Christmas!

I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas

poem by Spike Milligan

I'm walking backwards for Christmas,
Across the Irish Sea,
I'm walking backwards for Christmas,
It's the only thing for me.

I've tried walking sideways,
And walking to the front,
But people just look at me,
And say it's a publicity stunt.

I'm walking backwards for Christmas,
To prove that I love you.

An immigrant lad, loved an Irish colleen
From Dublin Galway Bay.
He longed for her arms,
But she spurned his charms,
And sailed o'er the foam away

She left the lad by himself, on his own
All alone, a-sorrowing
And sadly he dreamed, or at least that's the
way it seemed, buddy,
That an angel choir did sing -
An angel choir did sing.

I'm walking backwards for Christmas,
Across the Irish Sea.
I'm walking backwards for Christmas,
It's the finest thing for me.

And so I've tried walking sideways,
And walking to the front.
But people just laughed, and said,
"It's a publicity stunt".

So I'm walking backwards for Christmas
To prove that I love you.

If I could write words
Like leaves on an autumn forest floor,
What a bonfire my letters would make.
If I could speak words of water,
You would drown when I said
"I love you."


MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

4 comments:

Mary said...

Merry merry Christmas, Bill.

Pat said...

I concur. Merry, merry Christmas to those who celebrate it and Happy Holidays or just "have a great day" to those who don't.

Very strange poem, Bill. Love the last stanza, the rest just puzzles me. But sometimes that's what poetry is for, right?

William J. said...

Hi Mary

Hope your Christmas was a great one and hope you can get some rest before tax season starts!

Bill

William J. said...

Hi Pat

Also hope your Christmas was great!

The poem is strange. It is an Irish diddy that I got when I searched "funny Christmas poems." It was the only one, that and I liked the last line were the two reasons I used.

I didn't really find it funny but did find it strange.

Bill