Wednesday, 27 August 2008

" MY TRIP TO SOUTHFORK"

   
 
      
 
ANOTHER STORY I HAVN'T TOLD YOU ABOUT THE USA.
 
WHEN ON HOLIDAY THERE ONE YEAR I WENT DOWN the SOUTHFORK WAY.
 
YES IN DALLAS TEXAS YOU'LL REMEMEBER THE SITCOM WELL.
 
WITH OLD JR AND FAMILY NOW MY TALE I'LL TELL.
 
I ARRIVED THERE IT WAS RED HOT ABOUT 31 DEGREES.
 
ME SISTER AND MY BROTHER-IN -LAW BELOW YOU'LL SEE ALL THREE.
 
TEXAS IS  A RED HOT STATE SO I HEADED INTO THE SHADE.
 
INSIDE THIS WONDERFUL GIANT STORE TO SEE WHAT THEY DID TRADE.
 
TWAS FULL OF BOOTS AND COWBOY HATS CLOTHES OF EVERY KIND.
 
I SUPPOSE YOU GUESSED ALREADY WHAT MOTHERHEN HAD IN MIND.
 
THE STOREKEEPER TOOK THIS PICTURE WHEN I'D PURCHASED THIS AND THAT.
 
WELL YOU GUESSED YES  MOTHERHEN I HAD TO BUY A HAT. HE-HE
 
 
SO MANY THERE TO CHOOSE FROM SO PURPLE WAS MY CHOICE.
 
THERE WERE LOTS OF HANDSOME MEN THERE TOO WHOO- HOO I LOVE COWBOYS. HE-HE.
 
 
 BROTHER-IN -LAW WAS IN HIS GLORY TRYING HATS  ONE BY ONE.
 
COME ON I SAID PLEASE HURRY OR THE DAY IT WILL BE DONE.
 
THEN I STARTED DREAMING AND THOUGHTS CAME TO MY HEAD.
 
MY POOR LEGS THEY WERE ACHING SO TO MY SISTER SAID.
 
I'M GOING TO RING JOCK EWING UP AND ASK TO BORROW HIS CAR.
 
I WOULD  PROMISE TO STAY ON THE RANCH AND SAY I'LL NOT TRAVEL VERY FAR.
 
SO BELOW YOU SEE ME HERE FRIENDS READY TO DEPART.
 
ISN'T THE CAR A BEAUTY GLEEMING AND SO SMART.
 
 
SLOWLYI DROVE THE DUSTY TRACKS WAVING LIKE OUR QUEEN. HE-HE
 
JUST FOR A DAY ME  A STAR NOT JUST PLAIN  KATHLEEN.
 
I PULLED UP  AT  THE WONDERFUL HOUSE AND TWO PEOPLE PASSED ME BY.
 
A LITTLE BOY ABOUT EIGHT YEARS OLD WITH HIS DADDY CAUGHT MY EYE.
 
 HOWDY !! SHOUTS THE LITTLE BOY  I KNOW YOU YOUR SUE ELLEN .
 
HE-HE  I THOUGHT FAME AT LAST I FELT  I WAS IN  HEAVEN.
 
CONTINUED ROUND THE BEAUTIFUL HOUSE SAYING OH! HOW I  DO WISH.
 
I REALY WAS SUE ELLEN I'D   MEET  BOBBY WHAT A DISH  HE-HE.
 
HERES A SNAP OF JR'S BEDROOM WHICH SUE ELLEN  DID SHARE.
 
I'D HAVE LOVED TO HAVE TRIED THAT BED OUT  BUT NO WAY I DIDN'T DARE HE-HE.
 
    
 
SO OVER I STROLLED TO THE SWIMMING POOL RELAXED AND  LAY IN THE SUN.
 
BEFORE I KNEW IT MY SISITER WOKE ME AND OH! WHAT HAD SHE DONE.
 
 
 
SHE HAD TAKEN MY DREAM AWAY FROM ME I DIDN'T WANT TO WAKE.
 
BEING SUE ELLEN FOR JUST A DAY WHY DID SHE HAVE TO TAKE.
 
ALL THOSE LOVELY THOUGHTS AWAY  YES WHAT A FABULOUS DAY .
 
I HAD IN DALLAS VISITING WHEN I WENT SOUTHFORK WAY.
 
 
I TRAVELLED THEN  TO THE RODEO BOY I HAD FUN OUT THERE .
 
WATCHING THE BUCKING BRONCO'S I WONDERED HOW THEY
DARE.
 
 
 
 
THEN ON TO SIX FLAGS OVER TEXAS THE RIDES WERE ENORMOUS GEEEE!!.
 
NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS WOULD I RIDE ON THEM NOT ME.
 
SISTER AND BROTHER-IN-LAW VENTURED I PRAYED MY HANDS CLASPED TIGHT.
 
WHEN THEY CAME OFF THE TITAN  GOSH THEY WERE GHOSTLY WHITE  HE-HE.
 
        
                 
A BRILLIANT DAY WAS HAD BY ALL SO WE HEADED THEN BACK HOME .
 
PLANNING THE NEXT DAY OUTING TO FORT WORTH IS WHERE WE  ROAMED.
 
 
BACK IN ENGLAND NOW I AM BUT I'LL RETURN AGAIN SOMETIME.
 
TO SEE A BIT MORE OF TEXAS WHICH  IV'E SHOWN IN 
 
                    " MY SIMPLE RHYME"