Leaving Song for Mr Chung
Posted ~ Friday 23 July 2010
Who will cry this last Friday morning
Jeffrey Chung is off on his way.
We’ll all sigh
How much we will miss him
We’ll think about him every day.
There’s a little ditty
They’re singing in the city about
A little Ozzie who’s flying away.
He’s off to Australia
Lets hope that he will mail ya
To tell you how he’ll cope
Without Raglan each day.
Oom pah pah Oom pah pah!
Off on a jet
Oom pah pah oom pah pah!
We’re all upset
He’ll have a cute kangaroo for a pet
When we say oom pah pah!
But one small child arriving at school on the first day of the autumn term is looking forward to seeing Mr Chung’s smiling face chewing away on his bowl of high protein lettuce, when suddenly she realizes he’s not here any more….
Where is Jeff?
With his little treble clef
Will he learn to use wobble board
And make Australians deaf?
Will all his new students frown
When he teaches upside down?
Living in the sun must be a pain
Hot tubs, gym, pink champagne.
Where, where is Jeff?
That child won’t be the only one pacing up and down the corridors that day…..
A man’s got a heart, hasn’t he?
Joking apart—- hasn’t he?
And tho’ I’d be the first one to say Mr Chung should’nt go
I’m finding it hard to stand firm and to really say no ………
He’s reviewing his situation
Would Jeffrey want to be in Enfield all his life?
All the trials and tribulations
With Mr Prentice, ME, his boss, good lord, what strife!
All the years he’d have to play for me
The shows he’d have to stage for me
The songs he’d have to write for me
Take trains and catch the bus for me
Read poetry and prose with me
Compose and decompose with me
I think he’s had to think it out again!
But seriously Mr Chung you’re really going to be missed. One thing we would all ask you to remember when you’re “Home and Away”….
Consider yourself at home
Consider yourself
Part of the furniture
We’ve taken to you so strong
It’s clear we’ve managed to get along
If you should find yourself missing all your pommie mates
Come back through these gates one day
We’ll set up a class for your somewhere in the corner here
Like you never went away
Consider yourself our mate
We don’t want to have no fuss
For after some consideration we can state
Consider yourself, Mr Chung
One of us!
Billabong! Billabong! Billabong!