Yestersocks Made of wool from fine angora flocks I think I must have left them at the docks How could I lose my yestersocks? Suddenly There's a total lack of hosiery. Can you see them floating out to sea? O yestersocks, come back to me. Why they had to go I don't know, I am quite foxed. I did something wrong; now I long for yestersocks. Yestersocks With a nice design of little clocks (I like my clothes to be unorthodox) O how I miss my yestersocks. Yestersocks More successful than a box of chocs For attracting girls in frilly frocks. They used to love my yestersocks. Why they had to go I don't know, I'm truly shocked. When the day got hot I forgot my yestersocks. Yestersocks Of the kind that Marks and Spencer stocks I'd rather have a dose of chickenpox Than lose my precious yestersocks. Yestersocks Nevermore will grace my laundry box. I could kick myself. O hollyhocks! I've lost my favourite yestersocks.
and need no introduction from me.
My excuse for this one is that I had been paddling in the sea near Great Yarmouth, and left the beach without putting my socks back on. By the time I realised - the following morning - the tide had come in and washed them away. The description of the socks above owes a little to artistic licence.
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