YE OLDE ENGLISH PUB

Some visitors to England usually long to see
In Tudor style, pretty gardens and old oak beams.
They stop and gaze and have a good cheap meal,
Take many photographs with jubilant glee.
Of what you ask? Ye Olde English Pub.

They sleep in an old fashioned bed with canopy and all.
Gaze at all the timber still standing firm and strong.
Hoping to have an English tea in the garden so sweet,
And in the evening sit in an inglenook and marvel
At what you ask? Ye Olde English Pub.

But let us look at the other side of this picture sweet.
For hundreds of years these doors have been open
To those with a weakness, who can’t say no to a drink.
They stagger home night after night, a hungry family to greet.
From where you ask? Ye Olde English Pub.

They have many strange names that fascinate all who come.
Here are a few by name. The Lion and Swan, Royal Oak,
Elephant and Castle, The Wheat Sheaf and the Red Cock Inn,
There’s a freindly word, a happy smile as you leave for home.
From where you ask? Ye Olde English Pub.

M Ann Margetson 20 March 1998. ©
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