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Post: #1 (ID: 114)   PostPosted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 10:45 pm    Karma this post: (+0 -0)  
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44 years ago when I worked in Neath as an apprentice, one of the men used to repeat a poem that ran.

"Novelist bring your notebooks,
Dramatists your pen,
and I will tell you a story of what women will do for men" (Don't worry it was perfectly clean)
It was only a tale of a lifeboat,
Of the dieing and the dead,
Of a terrible storm and a shipwreck,
That happened off Mumbles head"

Can anyone finish it off please?
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Post: #2 (ID: 125)   PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 5:16 am    Karma this post: (+0 -0)  
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I don't know the words, but the poem is called "The Women of Mumbles Head"

I hope this helps!
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Post: #3 (ID: 131)   PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 2:38 pm    Karma this post: (+0 -0)  
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The poem is reproduced in my book "Mumbles Lifeboat" which is on sale at bookshops in the Swansea area. Carl Smith
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Woolrich Parka has been related with the servere natural environments and outdoor exploration activities together from Woolrich outlet. You can match the clothes with the red sole shoes are not the acessorries status for clothing now,they catch more and more camera lens from the cameraman,and they have been the main fashion element,especially for designer shoes.
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Woolrich Parka has been related with the servere natural environments and outdoor exploration activities together from Woolrich outlet. You can match the clothes with the red sole shoes are not the acessorries status for clothing now,they catch more and more camera lens from the cameraman,and they have been the main fashion element,especially for designer shoes.
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