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Please can anyone remember a poem that starts something like this. Just see those clouds up yonder clouds have a lot to do
and tomorrow theyll rain taters and rain us cabbage too.
I cant remember anymore of .it.
I learnt it about 70 years ago and would love to have a copy of it now. Please can anyone help

May be a daft question as you may have mentioned it if you knew, but can you remember the author?

Sadly no,neither can I remember the title

Thank you Somerset girl, I am a Dorset girl

Sorry, I have searched but can't find it, though I have read some interesting ones whilst searching. It does ring a bell.

Thank you anyway

You're welcome. I'll try again tomorrow.

I tried googling it but to no avail. I hope you find it :-)

Thank you everyone for your efforts

Hello Evelyn,
What area did you live in when you learnt this?
It could be a regional poem.

maggie

Hello Maggie
I lived in and went to school in Weymouth Dorset.
Thank you for your interest
Evelyn

This is not your poem, but it is about Weymouth:-)


http://poetrypoem.com/cgi-bin/index.pl?poemnumber=923360&sitename=thedurzetbaird&poemoffset=0&displaypoem=t&item=poetry


weymouth calls


on the beach at weymouth
grockels on the sands
cockles and rock in hands
listen to the band

sun is on the harbor
hotel lights in view
weymouth in the season
just miles away from Poole

seagulls are a screeching
soaring Livingston's
mothers to kiddies calling
all folks having fun

shops all fun of candy deckchairs on the sands
punch and Judy fighting
fishing from the pier
stars are in the theater
now that summers here

Oh I did enjoy the poem about Weymouth.
I well remember watching Punch and Judy before the war, I would sit there on the sands all day even between shows, I used to take some doorstops(thick bread and dripping) and a bottle of cold tea, I used to think I was in heaven.
I now live in Guernsey and havent been to Weymouth since 2002 though I have 3 brothers still living there.
I am sailing to France today for 4 weeks hopefully wifi will be available where we are staying.
Kind regards
Evelyn

Evelyn, I googled it too and got a fascinating site about dialect in Sheffield or somewhere lol was interesting tho and I have saved it to favourites so I can look at it again.

Maybe if you write a letter to a paper in the area you lived, someone will remember it for you.

Lizx

are your schoolfriends still around? any chance of contacting them and see if anyone can remember?

I am only in touch with 1 school mate and she cant recall the poem at all.
I am 76 now so doubt that I shall ever remember the rest of the words.
There was another poem we used to say that started, Ferry me across the water do boatman do, I have a penny in my purse and my eyes are blue, the rest of that one escapes me.
All part of getting old I guess.
Kind regards
Evelyn

Ferry Me Across the Water

~Christina Rossetti

"Ferry me across the water,
Do, boatman, do."
"If you've a penny in your purse
I'll ferry you."

"I have a penny in my purse,
And my eyes are blue;
So ferry me across the water,
Do, boatman, do."

"Step into my ferry-boat,
Be they black or blue,
And for the penny in your purse
I'll ferry you."




:-)

Thank you so much Joy, now I feel about 6 years old, you have brought a tear to my eyes, a joyful one of course.Now I wish I could find the one about Taters and Clouds. It must surely be a Dorset one as it is said with that kind of accent. I learnt it when I attended Holy Trinity School in Weymouth and then I loved it and would recite it at the drop of a hat and it annoys me that I can no longer remember it. I dont have a memory problem in general, just this wretched poem, its driving me mad, I just dont know where else to look.
Kind regards
Evelyn

googled round & ended up on this site:

http://www.thegypsypoet.co.uk/the_dorset_baird.html

They may know the one you mean if you email them.

Some lovely poems about Dorset

You're welcome :-)

I shall keep searching.