Monday 30 January 2012

1974 - Haile and farewell

Half-days at school, OPEC oil embargo
Lasts til the spring, til Abba's Waterloo
Portugal's people say it's time to go
To those stuffy old men who've ruled for too
Long, and won't leave their colonies. The U
VF bomb Dublin, and Monaghan. It's
The World Cup in Germany - England, you
Stayed home, knocked out by Poland, but the Scots
Are there - the eventual winners, the Krauts
Ali beats Foreman in Zaire, Turks flow
Into Cyprus, Nixon resigns - crooks do
Get away with it sometimes - and Ford trips
(Literally) into the hot seat. Bombs blow
Up Birmingham... Jaws, Tinker Tailor too

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