Horsing Around In Chipping Norton Poem by Keith Shorrocks Johnson

Ian Blair, Ian Blair, lend me your bay mare.
All along Wapping gone ethics gone spare
For I want for to go to Hacking'em Fair,
With Glenn Mulcaire, Nev Thurlbeck, Greg Miskiw
Stu Kuttner, Jim Weatherup, Ian Edmondson
Andy Coulson, Flame Becky - all bareback an all
Andy Coulson, Flame Becky - all bareback an all

And when shall I see again my bay mare?
Chipping not Norton not - not that I care
Of tapping or snapshot or entrapment so bare
With Glenn Mulcaire, Nev Thurlbeck, Greg Miskiw
Stu Kuttner, Jim Weatherup, Ian Edmondson
Andy Coulson and Becky Brooks - braving a fall
Andy Coulson and Becky Brooks - braving a fall

So they harnessed and bridled the old bay mare,
Raisa the police horse, with scarcely a care
And off they plotted to Hacking'em fair,
With Glenn Mulcaire, Nev Thurlbeck, Greg Miskiw
Stu Kuttner, Jim Weatherup, Ian Edmondson
And Andy and Becky and Charlie - all having a ball
And Andy and Becky and Charlie - all having a ball.

Then Friday came, and Saturday noon.
All along down along reckoning soon
But Ian's old Raisa hath not trotted home,
With Glenn Mulcaire, Nev Thurlbeck, Greg Miskiw
Stu Kuttner, Jim Weatherup, Ian Edmondson
Andy Coulson and Mrs B - all too close to call
Andy Coulson and Mrs B - all too close to call.

So the Commissioner got up to the top o' the hill
And he seed his old mare down a-making her will,
With Cameron astride in his cavalry twill
With Glenn Mulcaire, Nev Thurlbeck, Greg Miskiw
Stu Kuttner, Jim Weatherup, Ian Edmondson
Andy Coulson and Rebekah - all riding so tall
Andy Coulson and Rebekah - all riding so tall.

Poor Raisa the mare - she took sick and she died
All along, down along when the hackers were tried.
And Dave he sat down on a stone, and he cried
With Glenn Mulcaire, Nev Thurlbeck, Greg Miskiw
Stu Kuttner, Jim Weatherup, Ian Edmondson
Andy Coulson and the Chestnut - four-faulting the wall
Andy Coulson and the Chestnut - four-faulting the wall.

But this isn't the end o' this shocking affair.
With Raisa and Becky dead-horsing it there
Nor, though it be dread, of the horrid career
Of Glenn Mulcaire, Nev Thurlbeck, Greg Miskiw
Stu Kuttner, Jim Weatherup, Ian Edmondson
Andy Coulson and the Witch - all casting a pall
Andy Coulson and the Witch - all casting a pall.

When justice is sought in the cold morning light
The voters will ask whether all this is right
When Murdoch the trainer was kept out of sight,
With Glenn Mulcaire, Nev Thurlbeck, Greg Miskiw
Stu Kuttner, Jim Weatherup, Ian Edmondson
Andy Coulson and Hot Bex- all hacking your call
Andy Coulson and Hot Bex - all hacking your call.

And all the long night be heard skirling and groans.
All along, down along, democracy moans
From Raisa the police horse rattling her bones,
With Glenn Mulcaire, Nev Thurlbeck, Greg Miskiw
Stu Kuttner, Jim Weatherup, Ian Edmondson
Andy Coulson and Game Becky - still chuckling an all
Andy Coulson and Game Becky - still chuckling an all.