Misalliance By Flanders and Swan From the album "At The Drop Of A Hat"
The fragrant Honeysuckle spirals clockwise to the sun and many other creepers do the same But some climb anticlockwise, the Bindweed does for one, or Convovulus, to give her proper name. Rooted on either side a door one of each species grew and raced up to the window ledge above Each corkscrewed to the lintel in the only way it knew where they stopped, touched tendrils, smiled and fell in love.
Said the right-handed Honeysuckle to the left handed Bindweed 'oh let us get married if our parents don't mind we'd be loving and inseparable, inextricably entwined we'd live happily ever after' said the Honeysuckle to the Bindweed.
To the Honeysuckle's parents it came as a shock, the Bindweeds, they cried, 'are inferior stock, They're uncultivated, of breeding bereft We twine to the right and they twine to the left'.
Said the anticlockwise Bindweed to the clockwise Honeysuckle; 'We'd better start saving Many a mickle mac's a muckle Then run away on a honeymoon and hope that out luck'll take a turn for the better', said the Bindweed to the Honeysuckle.
A bee who was passing exclaimed to them then; 'I've said it before and I'll say it again Consider your offshoots, if offshoots there be, They'll never receive any blessing from me'. Poor little sucker, how will it learn When it is climbing, which way to turn, Right, Left, what a disgrace Our it may go straight up and fall flat on its face.
Said the right-hand thread Honeysuckle to the left-hand thread Bindweed 'It seems that against us all fate has combined Oh my darling, oh my darling Oh my darling Columbine thou art lost and gone forever We shall never intertwine'.
Together they found them, the very next day They had pulled up their roots and just shrivelled away Deprived of that freedom for which we must fight To veer to the left or to veer to the right.
Ah, the antidote for when things fall apart---W. B., are you listening? ;D.
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Misalliance
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From the album "At The Drop Of A Hat"
The fragrant Honeysuckle spirals clockwise to the sun
and many other creepers do the same
But some climb anticlockwise,
the Bindweed does for one,
or Convovulus, to give her proper name.
Rooted on either side a door
one of each species grew
and raced up to the window ledge above
Each corkscrewed to the lintel in the only way it knew
where they stopped, touched tendrils, smiled
and fell in love.
Said the right-handed Honeysuckle to the left handed Bindweed
'oh let us get married if our parents don't mind we'd
be loving and inseparable, inextricably entwined we'd
live happily ever after' said the Honeysuckle to the Bindweed.
To the Honeysuckle's parents it came as a shock,
the Bindweeds, they cried, 'are inferior stock,
They're uncultivated, of breeding bereft
We twine to the right and they twine to the left'.
Said the anticlockwise Bindweed to the clockwise Honeysuckle;
'We'd better start saving
Many a mickle mac's a muckle
Then run away on a honeymoon and hope that out luck'll
take a turn for the better', said the Bindweed to the Honeysuckle.
A bee who was passing exclaimed to them then;
'I've said it before and I'll say it again
Consider your offshoots, if offshoots there be,
They'll never receive any blessing from me'.
Poor little sucker, how will it learn
When it is climbing, which way to turn,
Right, Left, what a disgrace
Our it may go straight up and fall flat on its face.
Said the right-hand thread Honeysuckle to the left-hand thread Bindweed
'It seems that against us all fate has combined
Oh my darling, oh my darling
Oh my darling Columbine
thou art lost and gone forever
We shall never intertwine'.
Together they found them, the very next day
They had pulled up their roots and just shrivelled away
Deprived of that freedom for which we must fight
To veer to the left or to veer to the right.
Entwining with the twining twine.... lovely.
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