FIFE FIRE TONGUE-TWISTER
If five fit Fife firemen
fear fir fires,
can five fit Fife firemen
fight fir fires in Fife fir forests,
for four Forfar firemen
fear for five Fife firemen
fighting fir fires,
and when four Forfar firemen
find five fit Fife firemen
can fight fir fires,
will four Forfar firemen
find fighting Fife fir fires fearful ?
© GERALD ENGLAND
Composed: Hope Bowdler, 8th September 1982
Publication
1998 Poetry Scotland (UK)
By the time that lot get themselves sorted the whole of Scotland will be hard aflame :)
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Who had a nose for news.
A nose for news no newsman ever knew.
But now he's dead
And though I know another nosey gnu,
I never knew a gnu who knew
The news that that gnu knew."