Plucking The Yew (Pluck You) Poem by The Original Tom Maxwell

Plucking the yew, drawing the longbow,
The battle of Agincourt, at the time,
A war in history,
The creation, of a modern sign.

The French, removed the middle finger,
Of captured English, along the way,
Which pulled the bow string,
Back in those days.

Pluck you, in fourteen fifteen,
Was the term for pulling the string,
Over many years, the p changed, to F,
Since the meaning, has a different ring.

The saying, ' giving the bird ", came to be,
From pheasant feathers, on arrows, at that time.
Now that you know, the rest of the story,
You'll start laughing, when shown the sign