{"id":18247,"date":"2020-12-06T13:34:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T05:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/?p=18247"},"modified":"2020-12-06T13:38:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T05:38:20","slug":"the-ballad-of-roland-heath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/the-ballad-of-roland-heath\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ballad of Roland Heath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>39, early September<br>The call was out, history remembers<br>Each Munkton man was a contender<br>Excepting one with his disfigured member<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roland Heath<br>Roland Heath<br>Lower Munkton\u2019s&nbsp;<br>Roland Heath<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norton Big Four boondoggle<br>Never hard on the throttle<br>Leather helmet and flying goggles<br>Billowing scarf drawing ogles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not the only blowing being done<br>Wives in the valley barring none<br>Sampled the over-eager tongue<br>Of the wayward club shafted one<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roland Heath<br>Roland Heath<br>Ladies loved some<br>Roland Heath<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a concentual pillage<br>From his Father\u2019s shop in the village<br>To the estates of great privilege<br>Not only groceries were delivered<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Millicent Dufresne hyphen Smythe<br>Was The Earl\u2019s trophy wife<br>Roland was generous with his knife<br>The soprano wailed for all her life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roland Heath<br>Roland Heath<br>Say his name<br>Roland Heath<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a decade Millicent scored<br>But the clues could not be ignored<br>When he found out the indignant Lord<br>Brandished his old regimental sword<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roland promptly fled the scene<br>His life becoming clandestine<br>Munkton village cricket team<br>Were down a Third Man for the foreseen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roland Heath<br>Roland Heath<br>Where is he?<br>Roland Heath<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skip to 1963<br>With socialite Persephone&nbsp;<br>A Soho club named the Jamboree<br>Space dogging night very second Tuesdee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How much space can a dog cram?<br>They went too far, It was a terrible plan<br>He took off but he did not land<br>Our hero perished when the Shit hit the Fan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roland Heath<br>Roland Heath<br>Rest In Peace&nbsp;<br>Roland Heath<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roland Heath<br>Roland Heath<br>We miss you\u00a0<br>Roland Heath<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Ballad-of-Roland-Heath-Karaoke.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>The Ballad of Roland Heath Karaoke Version<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/F3130A32-2751-41D0-AB47-469DDE714F46.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18248\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>39, early SeptemberThe call was out, history remembersEach Munkton man was a contenderExcepting one with his disfigured member Roland HeathRoland HeathLower Munkton\u2019s&nbsp;Roland Heath Norton Big Four boondoggleNever hard on the throttleLeather helmet and flying gogglesBillowing scarf drawing ogles Not the only blowing being doneWives in the valley barring noneSampled the over-eager tongueOf the wayward club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,6],"tags":[535,534,536],"class_list":["post-18247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem","category-profile","tag-covid20","tag-roland-heath","tag-song"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18252,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247\/revisions\/18252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}