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Roger McGough Quotes

born 1937 England

Roger Joseph McGough, CBE (born 9 November 1937) is an English poet from Liverpool, and one of three poets in the best-selling anthology The Mersey Sound. (The other two are Brian Patten and Adrian Henri.). He was also a member of The Scaffold, who reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in 1968.

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Random Roger McGough quote

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The general at the radar screen
Rubbed his hands with glee,
And grinning pressed the button
And started world war three.

The general at the radar screen
he should have got the sack
But that wouldn't bring
Three thousand million, seven hundred, and sixty-eight people back,
Would it?

There's the moon trying to look romantic
Moon's too old that's her trouble
Aren't we all?

Wasn't a bad party really
Except for the people

When you are posthumous it is cold and dark
and that is why patriots are a bit nuts in the head

If you fall that's no disgrace
Someone else will take your place
'Old soldiers never die...
... only young ones.

… i stood up and
said it was a pity that the world didn't nearly
end every lunchtime and that we could always
pretend. …

he thinks about his journey nearly done.
One day he'll clock on and never clock off
or clock off and never clock on

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Roger McGough (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.