POETRY BY BRUCE LAKIN
“No Place Like It On Earth”
St Ann’s Well Road Nottingham, there was no place like it on earth
If you weighed it in gold then that’s what it was worth
St Ann’s Well Board School is where we all met
Such good memories none of us ever want to forget
Morley School where we met our girlfriends, sometimes happy, sometimes sad
I remember the names of the girls and also the lads
We never want to let the St Ann’s history fade away
Monday, Tuesday or then any other day
Or all the famous streets on both side of this famous road
And we always helped the elderly to carry their load
There was a pub on each corner and we drank in all of them
But after eight pints one or two of us would fall
We went down on our knees but the we got up again
Went back in the pub to drink two more pints so that made it ten
But we were a great gang of lads, The Sennti Gang
Then it went rock and roll and all the songs we all sang
Elvis, Billy Fury, Little Richard, we remember them
The world was changing so the Sennti lad started having a ball
As we came through the war years and some of us had it bad
My mother Hannah Larkin raised four boys on her own as we had no Dad
And we were not on our own, we were just in the queue
But we all stood there together as we gathered what to do
I want St Ann’s Well Road to go into the book of History
But I always wished it was a little nearer to the sea
If only we could bring Flo Wood back to serve us a drink
That sure would be good idea, well that’s what I think
To go to the Cavo or Empress Picture House afternoon or night
And then walk all the way home with no fear or of fright
I would sooner walk down Donkey Hill than up it I’m sure
As we Sennti lads have grown older sadly we are not young anymore
If you weighed it in gold that’s what it was worth
St Ann’s Well Road, there was no place like it on earth.
Bruce Lakin.
St Ann’s Well Road Nottingham, there was no place like it on earth
If you weighed it in gold then that’s what it was worth
St Ann’s Well Board School is where we all met
Such good memories none of us ever want to forget
Morley School where we met our girlfriends, sometimes happy, sometimes sad
I remember the names of the girls and also the lads
We never want to let the St Ann’s history fade away
Monday, Tuesday or then any other day
Or all the famous streets on both side of this famous road
And we always helped the elderly to carry their load
There was a pub on each corner and we drank in all of them
But after eight pints one or two of us would fall
We went down on our knees but the we got up again
Went back in the pub to drink two more pints so that made it ten
But we were a great gang of lads, The Sennti Gang
Then it went rock and roll and all the songs we all sang
Elvis, Billy Fury, Little Richard, we remember them
The world was changing so the Sennti lad started having a ball
As we came through the war years and some of us had it bad
My mother Hannah Larkin raised four boys on her own as we had no Dad
And we were not on our own, we were just in the queue
But we all stood there together as we gathered what to do
I want St Ann’s Well Road to go into the book of History
But I always wished it was a little nearer to the sea
If only we could bring Flo Wood back to serve us a drink
That sure would be good idea, well that’s what I think
To go to the Cavo or Empress Picture House afternoon or night
And then walk all the way home with no fear or of fright
I would sooner walk down Donkey Hill than up it I’m sure
As we Sennti lads have grown older sadly we are not young anymore
If you weighed it in gold that’s what it was worth
St Ann’s Well Road, there was no place like it on earth.
Bruce Lakin.