Falangs lament

[heybuz]

Woke up Sunday morning 

Decided to take a stroll

Down to my favourite place

The bangkapi mall

As I strolled along the klong a man approached me.

He said son you're on overstay please don't try to flee.

I cast my eyes left and right there was no where to go.

So I quickly dodged around him and headed for the mall.

I lost him in the carpark and sighed with some relief.

Then a hand on my shoulder it was the police chief.

He said son you resemble a stranger that robbed shop number one.

He put me in handcuffs and took me to a room.

It was then that it occurred to me I had just landed at suwarnaphum. 

 

[sherwood]

Needs a little work mate but you could be on a winner there. Got a tune to go with it?

Cheers

[Kwasaki]

A guilty conscious can do that, have you woke up yet with a wake-up sleep jerk.

[bluesofa]

1 minute ago, Kwasaki said:

A guilty conscious can do that, have you woke up yet with a wake-up sleep jerk.

I've got a feeling he could be guilty but unconscious.

[Puchaiyank]

Don't quit your day job!

[heybuz]

4 hours ago, Puchaiyank said:

Don't quit your day job!

Unlike you I have one

[Nyezhov]

50 minutes ago, heybuz said:

Unlike you I have one

Some of us don't have to work, sucks to be you then doesnt it

[heybuz]

1 hour ago, Nyezhov said:

Some of us don't have to work, sucks to be you then doesnt it

Lighten up a bit of attempted humour but I suppose the there's always sad people .

[Traubert]

Not a master of the iambic pentameter then. For a first attempt it has promise though.

 

Started as a blues 4/4, nice place to start.

 

I woke up this morning, da da da-da da

Woke up yesterday too, da da da-da da

If I wake up tomorrow, da da da-da da

That'll be three days in a row.

 

I got those...hummm

I got those..hummm

Can't lose those...hummm

Insomniac blues...

 

Try and get somebody dying in there, always a crowd pleaser.

 

[RichardColeman]

11 hours ago, sherwood said:

Needs a little work mate but you could be on a winner there. Got a tune to go with it?

Cheers

Needs a Lou Reed esque catchy chorus

[AlexRich]

7 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Needs a Lou Reed esque catchy chorus

He’s probably just recovering from a “walk on the wild side”?

[heybuz]

5 hours ago, AlexRich said:

He’s probably just recovering from a “walk on the wild side”?

No just had a boring morning, thought I'd give it a crack 

[heybuz]

17 hours ago, sherwood said:

Needs a little work mate but you could be on a winner there. Got a tune to go with it?

Cheers

I have one being looked at by a Thai producer?,this was a bit of fun I. was thinking of the Irish labourer and the brick hoist at the time.

[Mikisteel]

The Thailand life yeah yeah let's live the Thailand life

 

loads of beer and a fit young wife to steer, the kind of totty you would normally never get near.

 

yeah yeah that's the Thailand life.

 

The balconies are small but farang are normally tallllll, be careful on the escalators at your local shopping malllllll. 

 

 

Happy to add anyone's suggestions.

 

 

[Mikisteel]

Once it was 55

 

and life was great.

 

Out every day of the week with a different date.

 

Loadsa wiseones  on the stool, white knights walking tall 

 

But but.... how the farang have come down with a bang, scraping baht together for a couple of Chang not even tipping 25 satang.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[heybuz]

45 minutes ago, Mikisteel said:

The Thailand life yeah yeah let's live the Thailand life

 

loads of beer and a fit young wife to steer, the kind of totty you would normally never get near.

 

yeah yeah that's the Thailand life.

 

The balconies are small but farang are normally tallllll, be careful on the escalators at your local shopping malllllll. 

 

 

Happy to add anyone's suggestions.

 

 

Went out onto the balcony with my cup of chai then someone pushed me on my back didn't know that I could fly.

[grifbel]

19 hours ago, heybuz said:

Woke up Sunday morning 

Decided to take a stroll

Down to my favourite place

Hey rubber duckie.....would fit nicely in with the music/lyrics from Convoy .....

 

Convoy

C. W. McCall

Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth pullin' logs
Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
We is headin' for bear on I-one-oh
'Bout a mile outta Shaky Town
I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck.
"And I'm about to put the hammer down."

'Cause we got a little convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a little convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy!

By the time we got into Tulsa Town,
We had eighty-five trucks in all.
But they's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf,
And them bears was wall-to-wall.
Yeah, them smokies is thick as bugs on a bumper;
They even had a bear in the air!
I says, "Callin' all trucks, this here's the Duck.
"We about to go a-huntin' bear."

'Cause we got a little convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a little convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy!

Well, we rolled up Interstate 44
Like a rocket sled on rails.
We tore up all of our swindle sheets,
And left 'em settin' on the scales.
By the time we hit that Chi-town,
Them bears was a-gettin' smart:
They'd brought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois National Guard.
There's armored cars, and tanks, and jeeps,
And rigs of ev'ry size.
Yeah, them chicken coops was full'a bears
And choppers filled the skies.
Well, we shot the line and we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
An' eleven long-haired Friends a' Jesus
In a chartreuse micra-bus.

Well, we laid a strip for the Jersey shore
And prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge was lined with bears
But I didn't have a dog-goned dime.
I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck.
"We just ain't a-gonna pay no toll."
So we crashed the gate doing ninety-eight
I says "Let them truckers roll, 10-4."

'Cause we got a little convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a little convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy!

Edited August 19, 2019 by grifbel

[Mikisteel]

23 hours ago, heybuz said:

Went out onto the balcony with my cup of chai then someone pushed me on my back didn't know that I could fly.

Yeah yeah yeah the Thailand life where your best mate ends up being your ex's next date, like there ain't enough to penetrate what's that I sound like I denigrate sorry just telling like it is mate, no need to hide behind those rose tinted specs or have conversations solely through line texts!!

 

 

Edited August 19, 2019 by Mikisteel

[heybuz]

4 minutes ago, Mikisteel said:

Yeah yeah yeah the Thailand life where your best mate ends up being your ex's next date, like there ain't enough to penetrate what's that I sound like I denigrate sorry just telling like it is mate, no need to hide behind those rose tinted specs or have conversations solely through line texts!!

 

 

Mine's all in jest dont know what you're on about, but every body can say what they like.

[transam]

 

[Mikisteel]

18 hours ago, heybuz said:

Mine's all in jest dont know what you're on about, but every body can say what they like.

Yeah yeah the Thailand life where insecurities hide behind online fallacies, bragging about there paid for dallances living out there life long fantasies, yeah yeah the Thailand life

[AverageBloke]

Your Lament reminds me of a verse from The Cruel Sea.

Then the officer said

Better get a lawyer, son
You better get a real good one

Get yourself a suit and tie
And get your hair cut way up high
Get yourself a lawyer, son
You're gonna need a real good one

[heybuz]

2 minutes ago, Mikisteel said:

Yeah yeah the Thailand life where insecurities hide behind online fallacies, bragging about there paid for dallances living out there life long fantasies, yeah yeah the Thailand life

Mate sorry if you have some axe to grind but I don't live in Thailand anymore I'm just a visitor now, stay with Thai friends for a couple of months then home for same.

[JamJar]

38 minutes ago, heybuz said:

Mine's all in jest dont know what you're on about, but every body can say what they like.

 

I think his is too... it's just not written in separate lines as was yours.

 

 

[JamJar]

19 minutes ago, heybuz said:

Mate sorry if you have some axe to grind but I don't live in Thailand anymore I'm just a visitor now, stay with Thai friends for a couple of months then home for same.

 

Here again, you appear to have missed the point.

Seems like it's written in a 'toasting' style. A style later ripped off by the likes of 'Eminem'.

Edited August 19, 2019 by JamJar

[heybuz]

4 minutes ago, JamJar said:

 

I think his is too... it's just not written in separate lines as was yours.

 

 

Ok I apologise profusely.sometimes it's hard to tell.

[Farangwithaplan]

14 hours ago, Traubert said:

Not a master of the iambic pentameter then. For a first attempt it has promise though.

 

Started as a blues 4/4, nice place to start.

 

I woke up this morning, da da da-da da

Woke up yesterday too, da da da-da da

If I wake up tomorrow, da da da-da da

That'll be three days in a row.

 

I got those...hummm

I got those..hummm

Can't lose those...hummm

Insomniac blues...

 

Try and get somebody dying in there, always a crowd pleaser.

 

and always remember to reference 'nintey-nine and one half days'

 

 

[CGW]

17 hours ago, heybuz said:

Unlike you I have one

Somewhat surprising. ???? 

[heybuz]

46 minutes ago, CGW said:

Somewhat surprising. ???? 

No no job just being half smart, caught me at the wrong time.i don't follow my own advice " put brain into gear before mouth"

[geronimo]

As a fellow poet, it needs some work, but with a little perseverance and a large dose of creativity, you might just be able to give up your day job!