A short biographical tribute to the Immortal Bard.
NB (for English folk) oggan = ocean; fu' = had a skinful.
Rabbie the Rhyming Alkie
O Rabbie Burns, he got sae fu',
They thought that he might ne'er come to;
"Go easy, Rab," his friends all said,
"Or you will very soon be dead;
Your way of life, it is not wise."
But Rab thought they were telling lies.
On Hogmanay, he got so drunk,
He took a freezing midnight dunk;
He fell right off of his toboggan,
And leapt full-clothed into the oggan;
His escapade did not come free,
He croaked it from the pneumonie.
With Amy Winehouse drinking herself to death, and England rugby players jumping in the sea at the World Cup, it seems that little has changed among the famous.
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