The Flight From Bootle
Sir John Betjeman * Track #9 On Betjeman’s Banana Blush
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The Flight From Bootle by Sir John Betjeman
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Sir John BetjemanThe Flight From Bootle Lyrics
Lonely in the Regent Palace
Sipping her “Banana Blush”
Lilian lost sight of Alice
In the honey-coloured rush
Settled down at last from Bootle
Alice whispered, “Just a min
While I pop upstairs and rootle
For another safety pin.”
Dreamy from the band pavilion
Drops of the Immortal Hour
Fell around the lonely Lilian
Like an ineffectual shower
Half an hour she sat and waited
In the honey-coloured lounge
Till she with herself debated
“Time for mе to go and scrounge!”
Time enough! or not еnough time!
Lilian, you wait in vain;
Alice will not have a rough time
Nor be quite the same again
The Flight From Bootle Q&A
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The Flight From Bootle was written by Sir John Betjeman.