The Fat Budgie: by John Lennon

[norml]

The Fat Budgie

I have a little budgie
He is my very pal
I take him walks in Britain
I hope I always shall.

I call my budgie Jeffrey
My grandads name's the same
I call him after grandad
Who had a feathered brain.

Some people don't like budgies
The little yellow brats
They eat them up for breakfast
Or give them to their cats.

My uncle ate a budgie
It was so fat and fair.
I cried and called him Ronnie
He didn't seem to care

Although his name was Arthur
It didn't mean a thing.
He went into a petshop
And ate up everything.

The doctors looked inside him,
To see what they could do,
But he had been too greedy
And died just like a zoo.

My Jeffrey chirps and twitters
When I walk into the room,
I make him scrambled egg on toast
And feed him with a spoon.

He sings like other budgies
But only when in trim
But most of all on Sunday
Thats when i plug him in.

He flies about the room sometimes
And sits upon my bed
And if he's really happy
He does it on my head.

He's on a diet now you know
From eating ear too much
They say if he gets fatter
He'll have to wear a crutch.

It would be funny wouldn't it
A budgie on a stick
Imagine all the people
Laughing til they're sick.

So that's my budgie Jeffrey
Fat and yellow too
I love him more than daddie
And I'm only thirty-two.

[Maccagirl]

1. Was that from "In His Own Write"?

Apparently John started writing poems and stories from about age 7 and he called his little books "The Daily Howl".

I remember a couple of lines from "The National Health Cow"...
The cow looked up at me,
Her eyes were all aglazed.
"I'm feeling like an elephant,
I haven't been milked for days."

What a special soul-I miss him.

[norml]

2. It's from A Spaniard in the Works.

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8498/spaniard.html

[Maccagirl]

3. Thanks

Take care.

[orpupilofnature57]

4. Trail blazer, Genius,Liberal, Loving , Sharing ,Caring, Funny,Critical

courageous,A working class hero, is something to be.