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By Sandshoe
Whoever rents the Pig’s Arms wedding suite (Chant; Top Dollar!)
will find the flaws in the paintwork (Chant; Zeus!)
I say to you Boss “He is no painter, Foodge
in whom you trusted.” (Chant; my Oath!)
Boss, he is a private dick (Chant; Gumshoe!!)
You surely knew (Chant; Boss!)
from the fowl house perches (Chant; Most High!)
and even to the piggery
he will lay no ground sheets as covers.
You’d think he’d learn under threat of death (Chant; Tar and Feathers!)
his splashes spoil car parks and entrances.
You will fear the Painter of the Night,
as he works as dick by day (Chant; Tar and Feathers!)
the pest will paint by night in darkness;
anyway still expect lunch at midday.
A thousand bucks likely dwindle,
ten thousand no worries [fade Pig-tel jingle!]
but he will splotch the Jag. (Chant; Not the Jag!)
Boss, you will see the results (Chant; Expletive Deleted!)
Then know the punishment has no end.
Say “Shoe Decorators and Painters,
make most too of this my pub’s verandahs (Chant; Most High!)
No harm in a fresh coat
On them; suspend a tent Indian style1
For the Kama Sutras when they visit the Pigs
to toss their knots and kick their heels up.”
They do strange things with turmeric.
They will be easy
and glad when Foodge evacuates the wedding suite.
You walk a thin line like the lion on the cobra.
You risk he treads in paint dollops and the tray.
No point your saying he loves you and rescue him
from drips and clean him with turps and water in spots.
Shoe Decorators and Painters (Call 6-double-6!).
Test not he can’t be that bad and
Gez will deliver the paint by bicycle?
It’s a long trip from the tip; it
will take forever, Boss
between the hot Milos and the slop (Chant; Strewth!)
Apologies to Psalm 91: Psalm 91 (New International Version, ©2010).
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+91&version=NIV

Sorry Shoe, I forgot to send my post to you …I do things in haste…
I expressed my admiration about your Psalm. Here again : excellent!
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High praise from you Helvi. Thank you.
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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm interesting.
It maketh me to lie down.
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Bring me my arrows of desire.
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You will not fear the terror of night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
…
Kind regards, Jayell (how do you do.)
Shoe Decorators and Painters. 🙂
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Kembali SS.
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Just loved it.
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Stupendous Psalm, Sandshoe. You’ve really nailed that whole psalmic thing, only enhanced by the touch of black spiritual, not to mention your generous embrace of the PA characters.
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Voice, thank you. I wrote it over two sessions. Not much ado.
I partic. thought of a chant/response to include as many piglets in gainful song as might muster. Voice, I imagined piglets practising in their bath or shower. Not literally and visually speaking. Aurally imagined. 🙂
For ‘Pig’s Psalms at the Pig’s Arms’. The concert. 😉
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The psalm contest seems to have morphed into the literary festival de Porc. Amazing piece, ‘Shoe.
Very much appreciated.
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That was amazing shoe!
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I so loved a comedy track years ago of what was ostensibly an address of a congregation by a vicar (Samuel Pepys Show perhaps). It started playing in my head when I was writing. That was weird.
Thank you for your kind appreciation. 🙂
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Lehan. I wrote your name, Win and editing then what I had to say inadvertently left it out. Lehan.
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Wow,
How can anyone surpass that one? The Kama Sutra and Foodge lying low in the wedding suite.
A smorgasbord of words in chaos but it somehow works wonderfully.
Thanks Shoe.
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Gez, I have tried. Never having done it before it was fun. Thank you, kind piglet, for your bestowal of an effulgent blessing on my Psalm. 🙂
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