At 04:41 PM 1/6/98 -0800, Tom Walker wrote:
> As I was going up the stair
> I met a man who wasn't there.
> He wasn't there again today.
> I wish, I wish he'd stay away.
> - Hughes Mearns(?)
Great poem, Tom!
But for 50 years I have heard it attributed to the mythic Scottish rhymer of
nonsense verse, McGonigle:
As I was walkin' doon the road,
I saw a coo, a bull begoad!
As I was walkin'up the stair
I saw a man that wiznae there.
He wiznae there again the-day.
I wish tae hell he'd go away.
Colin Stark
