George From Northampton

I've often wondered why he did not stay In his green country all those miles away Since nostalgia he has not yet outgrown And he still refers to Northampton as home? . For twenty years he's lived out of England Which makes it the harder to understand Why he has never seemed to settle here He still hold England and Northampton dear. I have often heard him recite the poems of John Clare And rhymes and songs he learnt over there Some thirty years ago as schoolgoing boy He won't allow the old memories to die. With a teenage daughter and an Aussie wife Perhaps in this Land he will spend his life For he has a duty to his family And George is true and none so loyal as he. He will be forty on his next birthday And through his brown hair you will see some gray And the accent that he brought from far away With George the fellow from Northampton stay. The Dunnock chirp in the English hedgerow And cool Autumn winds down through Northampton blow And here south east of Melbourne it is Spring And on blackwood tree the gray butcherbird sing. And George from Northampton still talks of home And nostalgia as of yet he's not outgrown Which makes me wonder why he did not stay In his green country all those miles away? .