Chirpy Dirges

Strings & Roundabouts

You reach 95,
scrimping by l/ church lice,
but then the very night you win the lottery,
you have massive coronary:
swings & roundabouts.
 
Lose your lucky penny,
picked up by your arch-en'my,
but he pops his back out.
You wear the weekend crown,
but your boss is new in town:
swings & roundabouts.

 
If it weren't so stiff,
canvas would wrap chips
in Vincent's time.
But a cench later,
Sotheby's sell 'Sunflowers'
for a trillion demon dimes.
I'm gonna be immortal,
I'm gonna die alone:
swings & roundabouts.
Strings will play me out.

Adolf eyeing the Eiffel, Christ on the cross:
swings & roundabouts.
Hitler, B in his bunker; Jesus Prince of Heaven:
swings & schweinhunds.
Hitler is in Hell, Israel's got Stockholm's:
swings & roundabouts.
If Hitler's Hell's himself,
how come that's my hell as well,
& I don't even kill limescale?
Dr. Jekyll and Judge Judas hyde behind trust,
coz wussier Judases abuse jurisprudence

for 30 silver pieces or thereabouts.
Jesus wept, Judas slept in his Jaguar:
silver linings for down&outs.
Snakes&ladders&roundabouts.

O Swings&Roundabouts Vicar, can I have a word
about my doubts?
O Swing&Boutarounds Vicar, can I have a word
about my doubts?
O Bout &Swingarounds Vicar, can I have a word
about my doubts?
O Round&Swingabouts Vicar, can I have a  word  
about my doubts?
Ain't roundabouts grazed knee roulette,
but I have nothing against swings...
Horses for courses really.