father_thames
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Reged: 23/06/2008
Posts: 2
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I am a locky keeper
I work upon the |Thames
Don't ask me what my hours are
Just say they never end
However I don't mind at all
I'm happy in my job
For me there is no better way
To live and make a bob
I've done it now for thiry years
me and my faith spouse
Tending to my locky gates
In my LOCKY HOUSE
But now the 'bean counters' come
He wants to chuck me out
An it's no use me complaining
Cos I aint got no clout
The river it keeps rolling on
And though it'll never stop
It is a fact, the bottom now
much closer to the top
The EA they don't want to know
When I voice my fears
It has no understandin
And it's got no ears.
I can't withdraw my labour
There's things that must be done
But I remember yesteryears
When working here was fun
So I must grin and bear it
and it seems a shame
That now I'm just a number
where once I was a name.
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Brayman
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Reged: 27/11/2006
Posts: 1230
Loc: Bucks
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You'll always be a name to us matey.
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How come I am over the hill but I never made it to the top?
http://www.braycruiserclub.co.uk
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BG1
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Reged: 31/08/2006
Posts: 101
Loc: Hampshire, uk
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Nice one - well said !
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No_Regrets
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Reged: 09/07/2007
Posts: 1291
Loc: Welwyn Garden City, Herts UK.
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He is a locky keeper
of that there is no doubt.
but even then, the EA bods
think they can kick him out
Remember the EA?
You pay them loads each year,
and if you gave them half as much
you'll still think it was dear.
The EA know their way
around the pointy end,
but of a pencil, not a boat
they drive us round the bend
They talk of 'Defra'
'Running costs' and 'economic cuts'
But you don't see those feckers
working out of wooden huts
Nor is their head office
going to be short,
of cretins wielding biros
who don't know left from Port.
But when the rains a cometh
and the river runneth fast
and houses flood or people die
they'll all be so aghast...
wishing they could turn back time
when things were not so rocky
and maybe they would reconsider
how they treat our Locky.
Keep him in the house
they built those years ago
Let him tend the garden,
The lock and river flow
For no-one does it better
is there all Night and Day
or knows quite how the River works
in the whole EA.
To all you Lock keepers
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Cuchilo
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Reged: 19/04/2003
Posts: 4523
Loc: London
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Love it 
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Dont come running to me if you fall over and break your leg .
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UncleAlbert
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Reged: 23/01/2005
Posts: 943
Loc: Adrift
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Nice to see my Poem back …hopefully it brought home to some the shameful treatment that has been handed out to the Lockys…
Welcome to the forum F/Thames …. stick around and share your thoughts with us….
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Cuchilo
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Reged: 19/04/2003
Posts: 4523
Loc: London
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Of course i did know it was your poem , i just liked the twist no regrets put on it 
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Dont come running to me if you fall over and break your leg .
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Chris_d
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Reged: 15/06/2001
Posts: 1557
Loc: Oxfordshire
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Its amazing how these things get posted around the internet, you should ask for royalties
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justaphoenix
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Reged: 04/11/2007
Posts: 80
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Hmmm, too many lock keepers who think they're skippers, IMHO.
They're the servants, we're their masters, and so long as they (and we) remember that, we all get on just fine.
Aside from that, they're no longer trying to hang onto the last vestiges of a dying profession, I'm afraid - rather, many are clinging to the coat-tails of a dead one, and should recognise that it's time to move on - perhaps literally as well as figuratively, in some cases.
I have enormous respect for those who get it right, but no time at all for those who've proven to be a pain in the fundament too often.
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UncleAlbert
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Reged: 23/01/2005
Posts: 943
Loc: Adrift
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Good Troll 
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