Anyway:
I wish I were a bookie
How much its overrated
I wish that I could turn back
I wish I could drink like a lady
I can take one or two at the most
Three and I'm under the table
Four and I'm under the host
I'll play a dazzling rhapsody
On all your pleasure centres
And drain you of your ecstacy
By taking out my dentures
...and now, back to our usual programme...
- my paternal grandmother - god rest her soul - used the phrase 'wreck of the Hesperus' on a daily basis - not really sure why. She never mentioned evening stars or Swindon environs.