Poetic Writing of ROBBIE KENNEDY BENNETT © www.rkbpoetry.co.uk Born in Wolverhampton of English and Scottish parentage. He grew up on the Rough Hills Estate area of the town and his Scottish ancestral roots are in the Kingdom of Fife and Dundee. The author is now residing in Codsall, Staffordshire. Drawings, pictures and writing are copyright of the author Robbie Kennedy Bennett. LADY DEVORGILLA BRIDGE A REAL HARD CASE. Desperate Dan strides along the High Street of Dundee, the city of his birth. This 8ft-tall bronze statue was unveiled by schoolchildren in 2001. Along with Dan is his faithful pet Dawg and Minnie the Minx from the Beano with catapult in hand. The Dandy has featured Desperate Dan almost every week since 1937. Dundee is the home of DC Thomson, publishers of the comic. Angus artists, Tony and Susie Morrow, sculptured the statues of these remarkable comic characters. SINGING ALONG TO RAYMOND WHILE DRIVING UP TO AYR. A poem about the brilliant singer songwriter Raymond Froggatt (Froggie) and his talented sidekick Hartley Cain, otherwise known as 'H'. FROGGIE WILL SING YOU A SONG. AND FROGGIE SANG ALONG.
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LADY DEVORGILLA BRIDGE ©
by Robbie Kennedy Bennett
Contented am I, in the Douglas Arms,
A corner Inn on Irish Street.
Tomorrow morn this traveller man,
From Dumfries town I must retreat.
Let me recall an event of the day,
In my personal poetic way.
Pretty patterns appear in water,
In water, oh so clear,
Could an artist ever capture?
All the ingredients and then enrapture,
This locality here by where,
The artist and I, will our picture compare?
Lady Devorgilla Bridge,
Over the Nith her arches stand.
Oh, to be the artist,
With colours and brush in a talented hand.
I’d paint those patterns that did appear,
In water, water oh so clear.
Goodnight in twilight of the Douglas Arms,
This corner Inn on Irish Street.
Tomorrow morn this traveller man,
From Dumfries town I must retreat.
Leaving behind the patterns, pretty patterns that appear,
By Lady Devorgilla Bridge,
The auld, Auld brig,
In water, flowing water, water oh so clear.
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A REAL HARD CASE ©
by Robbie Kennedy Bennett 2007
Some men think they are a real hard case,
A growling look on a stubble face.
Nasty glare in a piercing eye,
Cut you dead as you pass them by.
Gym built muscles, naked woman tattoo,
Pick a fight dare not it be you.
All hard knocks should go and see,
Who walks the streets up in Dundee.
With the original stubble chin,
If you're in Dundee you will know its him.
Chew you up and spit you out,
A real hard case, I have no doubt.
Has there ever been a harder man,
Cow pie eater Desperate Dan.
All hard knocks should go and see,
He walks the streets up in Dundee.
A Real Hard Case, ROBBIE KENNEDY BENNETT ©
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SINGING ALONG TO RAYMOND WHILE DRIVING UP TO AYR ©
by Robbie Kennedy Bennett 2006
Singing along to Raymond
While driving up to Ayr,
Singing along to Raymond
I hadn’t got a care.
‘H’ did play guitar and strings,
He played away while Raymond sings.
Singing along to Raymond
While driving up to Ayr,
Singing along to Raymond
I hadn’t got a care.
I sang along to Raymond’s band,
While driving through the Border Land.
Singing along to Raymond
While driving up to Ayr.
Riding a horse he makes your spirit fly,
Again he will sing he doesn’t want to cry.
Raymond sings of gypsies and kings,
Under the sun and the fun that it brings.
Raymond sings about love
Raymond sings about shedding a tear,
Raymond sings here's for everyone
With a heartfelt listening ear.
Singing along to Raymond
While driving up to Ayr,
Singing along to Raymond
I hadn’t got a care.
‘H’ did play guitar and strings,
He played away while Raymond sings.
Singing along to Raymond
While driving up to Ayr.
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It was way back in the late 1960’s when I first saw Raymond Froggatt in concert.
He was on stage in the Merry Boys on the Willenhall Road, Wolverhampton and the room was ‘rocking’.
From then into the early 70’s I was a regular in the Ship and Rainbow on the Dudley Road. When Froggie was there you struggled to get into the place and how the roof remained in tacked I’ll never know. He brought something special to the people of my age in Wolverhampton. At the time, the only thing that my elder brother and I had in common was we both liked Raymond Froggatt. Seeing Froggie perform was like a trawler man casting his net and we were all part of his catch. I was caught singing and dancing to songs I had never heard of, not to songs dictated by the producer of a radio station.
In my opinion talent will always survive if you have it in depth, this man has. This is why he is still recording songs and singing to audiences who love his sound and stay loyal to him. I often see others from his industry that has to ‘get together’ on stage to put on a show or they are a warm-up act for the main artist. When Raymond Froggatt and H Cain put on a show Froggie fans come from afar, and it looks like they’ll be coming for a few years yet.
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AND FROGGIE SANG ALONG ©
by Robbie Kennedy Bennett 2004
And Froggie sang along
The words of his voice in song
With feeling for loves ones apart
He finds the lost love in your heart
He plays with your thoughts once again
As he sings of the sun and the rain
The clouds and the sky way up high
He shows us that love doesn’t die
Recalling a moment in time
When he sings of your love and mine
The times that you sat down and wept
And dreams that you had while you slept
Singing Along To Raymond, Froggie Will Sing You a Song, And Froggie Sang Along © Robbie Kennedy Bennett
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