Georgie Porgy And The Mystery By Dr Ian Inkster Poem by Dr Ian Inkster

Georgie Porgy And The Mystery By Dr Ian Inkster



Georgie Porgy and the Mystery by Ian Inkster

Georgie Porgy pudding and pie
Kissed the Girls and Made them Cry
When the boys Came out to Play
Georgie Porgy ran away.

Georgie Porgy through all his doubt
Finding out what it is all about
Asking girls and making friends
Knowing them well in the end.

Georgie Porgy no special looks
Hiding with girls learning the hooks
Not much of a body that maybe
But he's learning about the mystery.


The lads who play footie and do macho stuff
They think they know it all.
Boasting of conquests saying they get enough
They're standing oh so tall.
But it all eludes them and the girls don't exist
Don't even know their names
In the gym they try and on the field persist
But it's Georgie whose good at the games.


So in the village no-one blames
And a cuddle from Georgie reigns
And as the babies play their games
There's Porgy in all of their names.

Georgie Porgy pudding and pie
Kissed the Girls and Made them Cry
When the boys Came out to Play
Georgie Porgy, he ran away.

Ian Inkster

Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: children
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Yes, this is a play on the familiar children's ditty of Georgie Porgy who kissed all those girls and made them cry. But its only the first part of a quartet of verse that together sing the story of the Rise, Fall and Rise of Georgie Porgy.

Played with different melodies variously on guitar, ukulele and mandolin the story unfolds as a moral tale of sympathy turned to arrogance turned to a more final realisation.

In this first song Georgie shows the social and local power that can stem from merely being the one male who takes some time to understand or at least intelligently charm the surrounding young womanhood! As you shall see, in the second song things get a bit more ambitious but a lot tougher!

Ian Inkster 2016.
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