Gower Peninsula Community

Post: #1 (ID: 114)

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?

Post: #2 (ID: 125)

I don't know the words, but the poem is called "The Women of Mumbles Head"

I hope this helps!

Post: #3 (ID: 131)

The poem is reproduced in my book "Mumbles Lifeboat" which is on sale at bookshops in the Swansea area. Carl Smith