anybody remember a poem about a

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 16:20, Mike Weaver wrote:
> Strangely enough I was just now trying to hunt down the origin of a version 
> of the old music hall song Side by Side which goes -
> 
> Well I woke up early one morning
> Fell in love without warning
> So me and ol Lou
> Got married at two
> Side by side
> 
> We was just getting ready for bed when
> I nearly fell dead from the shock when
> Her teeth and her hair
> She placed on the chair
> Side by side
> 
> Then off came her wooden leg, glass eye and all
> Together with a pair of falsies she placed on the chair by the door
> I was most broken hearted
> Most of me wife had departed
> So I sat on the chair
> Coz there was more of her there
> Side by side
> 
> I know it isn't what yr after Barbara but you might consider it as a 
> substitute.
> 

There's a novel I'd lost track of since the 60s in which a bookish, drug
using, would be writer, expatriate Scotsman is working on a scow in New
York Harbor and becomes totally enthralled by the wife of a fellow
boatman. She has an artificial leg and they make love one night while
her husband is away. The scene is extremely touching. The novel is
Cain's Book by Alexander Trocchi now long dead. Another of his novels
was made into a movie Young Adam. Also incidentally involving the wife
of a fellow boat person. Cain's Book is very good on the use of pot
(what they called it back then) and other chemical substances.
 
> Cheers
> Mike