As I grow older, I tend to remember less and less
Especially peoples names, which I always forget
Their faces I recall in my brain somewhere
But for the love of me, I can’t remember their name
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I have come up with a remedy to fix this problem
and it seems to work , for every-one answers
Though some with a worried look on their brow
As I just call everyone Harry or Harriet
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But my name is not Harry or Harriet they say
And I say you tell me your name and I’ll forget
It’s so easy for me to call you Harry or Harriet
As my brain and hearing is not the best
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So don’t be offended I mean no disrespect
It’s just my way of putting a name to a face
For sticks and stones will break your bones
But names like Harry or Harriet will not hurt you.
Composed by way2gokev 9/11/2014
A few weeks back at a camp at Reeves beach I met up with fellow campers Rob and Lorraine and Rob just happened to be a bit of a poet like me.
Anyway he must have got sick of me calling him Harry for before he left he wrote me a poem, I love it.
OLD MATE
by Robert Bradfield alias Harry
I’ve travelled round Australia
Seen lot’s of different places
I’ve met a lot of people
With different names and faces
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But when we camped at Reeves Beach
At a place called 90 mile
There we met a fella
From down the Apple Isle
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He pulls a great big caravan
and takes it nice and slow
He tows it with a Nissan
I said that’s the “WAY2GO”
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He came across as a happy bloke
Whose vibes just seemed to carry
No matter what your name was
He just called you Harry
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When we left we wished him the best
and you may not think this true
I’d forgotten what his name was
So I just called him Blue!
In Australia a lot of people especially men call their friends not by their proper names. Popular names like Mate, Cobber, Bloke, Blue and many others, now there is another to add to the many “HARRY”
Great eptaph
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