Jolly Obituary For Daddy comical poem 583. by Angela Lansbury

Netta and Albert Lansbury. Wedding Photo. 1943. Copyright Angela Lansbury.

I had a long and happy life

I had a short but happy wife

She always did her best for me

I had a lot of cups of tea

I had a lot of holidays

You like home when you've been away

I never had the I'm bored blues

I watered plants, mended old shoes

Every day I went out walking

I'm deaf, my wife did the talking

I got too tired to go to town

So I played bridge, actively, sitting down

All lives endure some sun, some rain

I think of sun and don't complain

I wish that I had died at home

I'm sorry to leave you alone

Others complain their life was tough

'though mine was good, I've had enough

If one's life is like a train

No need to do it all again

I don't want reincarnation

My train's reached its destination

Live in or let or sell my home

I won't know what's on my tombstone

I watched my diet, took my pills

A month is too long to be ill

I've done the washing, paid the bills

And everything is in my will

I've told you eveything I know

And so it's time to let me go

I had a short but happy wife

I had a long and happy life.

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Sums up what my father said in hospital. A practical man. Opthalmic optician. Born 1912. Died 2005.

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