FRIENDSHIP

I used to have a ginger cat

First friend I ever made.

Got squashed outside my house one night,

I scraped him up with a spade.

I had a friend at junior school

I called him Sunny Jim.

One day he took off with my girlfriend

That’s the last I saw of him.

When I got my first job

I made a friend of my boss

We fell out when he sacked me

That made me awfully cross.

When I left home to work away

I shared my flat with mates

But they were always in the way

And ruined all my dates.

So when I got my own place

I had a friend called Jane,

She let me down -

I threw her out..

I went to live in Spain.

I made a friend in Barcelona

A Spanish senorita

At least that’s what I thought she was

‘til I found her name was Rita.

Let’s find a friend I said one day,

a friend I can rely on.

A friend that I can take to bed

A friend that I can lye on!

I got a local paper

Wrote a ‘lonely heart’,

I waited for the telephone

New friend, new life, new start.

I got a date, hooray I said

I’ll keep her if I can

But once again my plan went wrong

Turned out to be a man.

All my life it’s been the same

Friends have let me down.

Girlfriends, wives and drinking pals

White ones, black ones, brown.

But now I have a real friend

Someone who knows my mind

Someone who thinks like I do

Someone who’s really kind.

A friend who’s always by my side

A friend who’ll never flee

A friend who knows just what I want

My new best friend is me.