1958
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Hillary drives a vehicle to the south pole,
Gibson gives us the Flying V.
In football we can now score an extra two points,
and Legos blocks first hit the street.
50 inches of snow on Mason D...
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Categories:
quarrymen, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Beatles
...The band John Lennon
formed, called The Quarrymen
played half skiffle and
half rock and roll.
Four years later in
nineteen sixty, the band
evolved into The Beatles
with five men lineup.
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Categories:
quarrymen, culture, music,
Form: Verse
Quest
...(From Skiffle to Fame)
Quarrymen were a group
Quite good oldies do say
Quirky to the youth now
Quaint compared to these days.
Quoth Sir Paul McCartney
Quips John Lennon as well
Question’s me...
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Categories:
quarrymen, music,
Form: Verse
The Canary On the Wharf
...There once was a canary who hung out at the wharf
It was his fort of sort
Where there were boats
A float
Tied up at the dock
Waiting for laborers on the clock
But this canary on the wharf...
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Categories:
quarrymen, appreciation, boat, business, england,
Form: Rhyme
Musical Shed
...By day the quarrymen
The music band understand
6 long month's they must wait
till their next recording session
They won't play the ashes all summer
In the winter garden
With the shed at th...
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Categories:
quarrymen, music,
Form: Free verse
Porthgain Harbour
...This rusting chain is witness to an age
When slate was quarried from these ancient cliffs
And where one hundred quarrymen earned a wage.
This harbour, filled with steamboats, schooners, skiffs,
B...
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Categories:
quarrymen, boat, fishing,
Form: Sonnet
From Quarrymen
...Paul met John twanging banjo, singing a medley
Awed at what he heard playing by The Quarrymen
Five became four struggling to reach a destiny
Boarding a plane on an eternal trip since then...
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Categories:
quarrymen, music,
Form: Rhyme