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the telephone upon the wall verse/song fragment

Callback to:
The telephone upon the wall
Is useful when you want to call
Just push the buttons on the front
And hold the mouthpiece to your face

Origin

Our room in the Eurostars hotel in Brussels had very little knee-room when sitting in the bog… and some of that was taken up by a phone

Collector

Mark – 2007
Mark Iliff – owner

Notes

Sung to the tune of the hymn The people that in darkness sat (the CofE tune, not the Septic one – Dundee?)

Submitted: 30/11/2022 by Mark ● Last updated: 22/01/2024 12:28 by Mark

any thoughts?

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