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BIG JOHN
We were five sets all, then we lost one more
We needed the last with an eight love score
Or we hadn't a chance of winning the match that
day,
We could only do the best we could
I'm afraid things didn't look too good
We all dreaded the man we had to play.
Big John, Big Bad John.
Broad in the shoulder, steely arm and wrist
Tennis balls crushed in his mighty fist
Towering tall and strong as an ironbark tree
It was rumoured a couple of years ago
He'd wiped the court with McEnroe
And Becker had begged for mercy on bended knee
Big John, Big Bad John.
He picked up his racquet and walked to the line
Cold shivers ran up and down each spine
He'd never been beat and he'd never been seen to
smile
Lip curled back in a knowing sneer
He filled us all with abject fear
Looked as friendly as a Kakadu crocodile!
Big John, Big Bad John.
"I'll take him on", The Kid was there
Shirt hanging out and feet all bare
"He doesn't scare me" and swiped an imagined ball
Big John, disgusted, began to walk off
But stopped when The Kid began to scoff
"The bigger they are, the bigger they darn well
fall"
Big John, Big Bad John.
B.J. angrily served one down
It hissed and spat and scorched the ground
But The Kid got there and poked it shakily back
High in the air - a lolly-pop
That curled and wobbled in a dead slow drop
Big John misjudged - his composure seemed to crack
Big John, Big Bad John.
With frustrated rage he did his best
To annihilate the little pest
But The Kid was fast and somehow kept ahead
Only a quarter of Big John's size
Hat pulled low over laughing eyes
Big John turned purple and started seeing red
Big John, Big Bad John.
The Kid was blessed, strokes un-orthodox
Won with the cunning of a wily fox
Big John, defeated, wryly shook The Kid's small
hand.
Dumb-founded then, his head a-whirl
The hat pulled off, a bright eyed girl
Said "Thank you, John, and wasn't that set just
grand?"
Big John, poor Big John.
Big John has given tennis up
In pride of place a small gold cup
Is engraved with 'Winner of The Final' on the lid
A love game won and a love game lost
These days Big John is ruled and bossed
By his darling wife, still sometimes called - - -
The Kid!
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