Happy Birthday John Cooper Clark
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There was a fantastically amusing book on my parent's bookshelf, "Verse and Worse: A private collection by Arnold Silcock" (Faber & Faber, 1952).

JCC probably read it, too.

I memorized many of the verses, especially the silliest ones.

John Cooper Clark, "Evidently Chickentown" (1980)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidently_Chickentown

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