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Going To Liverpool

from The Tales Of Grimmer Pardon by Paul Gerard Dalton

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Liverpool is the place to go if you want to party. We had a great time there.

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"Have you ever been to Liverpool?".
"No John . No"
"Well you should go to Liverpool."
"John why should I go?"
"Well it's party town together, no matter what the weather. The women dress so finely and the men are just so timely with their wit and friendliness. "Are you lost can I direct you? I think I can detect you need a bit of guidance to a bar or a high dance in the old town hall".

"But I can get that in London John. So John, so why should I go?"

" Well London is a city where the women are so pretty. But Liverpool's a tribe with its custom and its pride though the people too have come from everywhere. And though Liverpool is smaller, the folk somehow walk taller and they talk so everybody knows just what they say. And if you listen really closely, there's rhythm to their prose. See they're poets of the English. And a story they will finish with a punch line that gives us all a hoot. That crosses seas and nations. It's a rare combination and you'll hear the sound of Irish in there too. So get yer arse on a train and please do not refrain by thinking I'm some sort of fool. If you have half the time that I had and that won't be so half bad, you'll sing the praises of old Liverpool. So will you go to Liverpool?"

"I might John so. But tell me more of Liverpool. I might go John go" .

"The Beatles you have heard and their music has been shared around the world and back across the moon. But in Liverpool I will tell more than any rung church bell, you'll hear a song by them from morn till noon. And in the evening too from Crosby to the zoo there's a busker singing Help, Here comes the Sun, Yellow Submarine. See what I mean. You'll even hear An Octopus' Garden. There's statues to these musicians as if they were physicians, explorers, mounted generals going to war. But they're only John and Paul, George and Ringo just like us all. But the cream of every day folk lore. So you should go to Liverpool."

"I think I'll go John so. I think I'll go to Liverpool and visit Penny Lane. I think I'll go to Liverpool. What time is the next train?"

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from The Tales Of Grimmer Pardon, released January 1, 2023

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Paul Gerard Dalton London, UK

Singer songwriter, poet, lyricist, anecdotalist, with Irish, Scots and north of England roots. Lives in west London. Recent published poetry 2024, Fielding Memories: Poems and Other Recalls.

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