"RUM OUR"
Illi write this tale of rumour, You can make of it its worth,
If you have a sense of homour, You may gain from it some mdrth.
Beginning life on a — seat. As a whispered epaptogram, By tho time its just a short hour old It’s believed by every ham.
’’The WAiC3 are here in thousands They .are here rs 1 manning crews? To take over all the instruments,” .That’ s tho way a rumour brews.
"Wo l 11 be home by sure for Easter, Will you take an even bet?" And here we are in mid July, Ard we haven’t shifted yet.
he QM ’ s started packing up, He ! a filled boxes by the score. But the rumour monger has nob guessed It’ s condemned goods ex store# ”A certain Big-Wig’s over here#” "In action soon"’, ttin said* That Big-WiG knows no more than us, Bo you nocd nt t .lose your head* And so on and on they travel, Gaining»credulence as they speed, Till they are believed by one and all, A mighty ! oak built from a seed# So at the seat of eveil stop them, Build latrines with separate stalls'# With only room for one to sit, Enclosed in sound proof walls«
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Gun Flash, Issue XXXIX, 17 July 1943, Page 3
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207"RUM OUR" Gun Flash, Issue XXXIX, 17 July 1943, Page 3
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