The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Phill Jupitus - The Railway Man
Edited by JODY PORTER
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CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
The Railway Man
Phill Jupitus
I heard
On the train
We had lost
A most singular
Essex man
Fighting man
Union man
Railed against injustice
Made points
And kept track
Of the bastards
So I wrote these lines
On the same train
And realised that
In his memory
None of us
Should be
Sleepers
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