Baa Baa Dumb Sheep (and other such rhymes)

Nursery Rhymes for the modern age.

Baa Baa dumb sheep.
Are you really such fools?
Yes sir, yes sir, the taxes you can pull.
But none from the bankers, or those who reign,
Everything must be taken from the many poor that live down the lane.

Jack and Jill went up the hill to build a lovely dormer
The economy fell down and broke the town
And employment came tumbling after.
Before up got Jack, his home the banks got 
As fast as they could caper
The politicians were in bed with the banking head,
All election promises had just been on paper.

Hey diddle diddle, the politicians were on the fiddle,
The bankers jumped over the moon.
The property developer laughed to see such fun
As the Government ran off with your silver spoon!

The Grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand homes
He built them on the top of the hill
And built them all with loans.
Before they were even up, he put the prices went up.
And when the economy went down, the prices went down
And when the homes were only halfway up
For purposes of the property tax they were up not down.
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Posted: Apr 2013
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Nursery Rhymes for the modern age.

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Comments (5)

darkhorse555
now i liked your rhyme a bit like a poem i wrote the peoples plight very good nice onethumbs up its how we all feelwine
Serenity4two
Hi MM wave
look at you in poet's corner !!
You do realise , i will be expecting even better contributions from you ,on my word game from now on ! --you were always good ,, now you're gonna have to be even better now i know of your hidden talent for poetry !
Well done you thumbs uphug
shadow1950
a hilarious take on old nursery rhymes I loved the fast pace as you flowed from to the next without breaking stride well written Marsman teddybear bouquet hug wine
studecar
Marsman, I like your poem, could I talk you in to running for congress, we need someone with intelligence in Washington.
studecar
paloma66
Its great MarsMan enjoyed reading it,thank you.thumbs up applause
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