General Humour
Red Wine Blues
May 2001
The brochure promised me blue skies
And sun eight hours a day
It never mentioned rain at all
For the Algarve in the middle of May.
The wind blew cold from the mountains
Bringing clouds all shades of grey
And the locals just shrugged their shoulders
In the Algarve in the middle of May.
But Portuguese wine is so cheap
And I bought some without delay
Then drank two bottles by lunchtime
In the Algarve in the middle of May.
I lay by the pool in defiance
And dared the sun to come play
Then fell asleep and got sunburnt
In the Algarve in the middle of May.
The doctor came round with some cream,
He said in the shade I must stay
And asked why I'd been so foolish
In the Algarve on my very first day..
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