Best Barmy Poems

Our Jack was a soldier of cavalry fame,
a squaddie then took our Beryl to tame.
Albie's good sense kept him from this game
while David, though Sapper, gave admin some pain.

Now me in the middle, I just played along,
though a true army brat I just practiced their...

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The Barmy Army
by Robert J (Bob) Moore (Duguello) ©2020
 (written for my chess team-The Barmy Army)

The Barmy Army proud and strong
began its life as a cricket song
on the English Ashes Tour
out to Australia, back in 1994

the English team was not real good
the Australian crowd never...

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It does a lot make one barmy,
Asking women to join The Army,
For torture with its classic pain,
For the captured does drive insane,
And her bravado jail with chain,
Military secrets for fast leakage,
A whole Army for speechless wreckage!

One is already quite the Barmy,
Enlisting women in one’s Army,
Muscular...

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