Make Up a Story
Stories from Around the World
It’s a Story Told in Song, Madam Butterfly
By Davie, Janet, Effie,Tommy, Teen, Audrey, Sadie, Ann, Nan, Willie
at Bayview, Methil, Fife, April 2023
Lights! Camera! Action!
I'd have loved to have taken a picture like that.
What's his name? I'm going to call him Bert..
No! His name is Robert.
That's True, Aye I know!
I would say he's going home..
I think he's going to the bookies, to get a wee dram
Aye, that's it!!
They go hand in glove both of them, the bookies and a dram!
He's been beside the pigeons, feeding the pigeons
I think he was a coal miner, he's retired now.
I know this because I know him well.
I've got it now! He's going to watch Madame Butterfly, the opera.
I don't like to say..he's going to get the bus?
I've no idea, I don't know.
He can hear cars, he can hear birds.
We think he is feeling sad.
"I'm getting there" is what he is saying
"what horse is going to win?" is what he is thinking
What's he going to have for his tea? I haven't a clue!
A lettuce leaf, a salad you could say.
He's getting older, he feels pain, it doesn't bother him.
He's not a red admiral, I think it would be scary to fly
I agree.
I do!!
If I could fly I would fly to Kingston Jamaica!
OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHhhhhhh
Australia!
Somewhere Hot!
I've not idea where I'd go. South Africa?
His favourite song is House of The Rising Sun by the Animals
🎵There is a House in New Orleans...🎵
That doesn't click with me; it would be Elvis, any song he wanted to sing! 'If I could dream'!
🎵There must be lights burning brighter somewhere
Got to be birds flying higher in a sky more blue🎵
It's an old man, it's not my Dad, my Dad's not that old ye ken.
The End
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