Possible Shankly reference

[Uncleskinny]

Can't take any credit for this, Mrs F spotted it while reading Elaine Dundy's 1964 book The Old Man And Me...

P.

 

[Raphael Lambach]

What's the reference?

 

[CrystalGeezer]

What's the reference?

Frankly, Mr Shankly, this position I've held
it pays my way and it corrodes my soul
oh, I didn't realise that you wrote poetry
(I didn't realise you wrote such bloody awful poetry)


A line of Uncleskinny's text reads: "And this too added to my annoynace, this corroding of my soul for his enjoyment, for after awhile I couldn't stop it, did it automaticaly like a reflex."

 

[Raphael Lambach]

Now I see.

 

[butley]

There is a Victoria Wood song called Funny How Things Turn Out with a line that says "...singer Lerner and Leowe to the mentally ill" which seems to have been bastardized in Shankly.