Cavalier Tunes (No. 4)
Mr. Geoffrey Bing's first task, on his appoint- ment as Attorney-General of Ghana, was to charge a London journalist with contempt of court. Our correspondent R. B. Browning reports: Kentish Sir Bing, hat in the ring, Bidding the impudent Telegraph swing, Started his job of suppressing the mob By giving each journalist one for his nob.
Critics may snipe, and Liberals may gripe.
What do I care, if the mangoes are ripe?
God for Nkrumah! Perish each rumour ! Stand up, that reporter who used the word stumer Liberty? Pooh ! License to you, If Hornchurch don't want me, there's others who do.
Critics may snipe, and Liberals may gripe. What do I care, if the mangoes are ripe?
Once, loudly they'd sing of leftish Sir Bing In the square of the Smith and the street of the King, Now, Ghanians, cheer! Geoffrey is here ! (Though what he is here for is not at all clear.) Critics may snipe, and Liberals may gripe.
What do I care, if the mangoes are ripe?
Help! Murder ! Where's Kwame? Call out the army.
The NUJ's waiting to feather-and-tar me. What? This is autocracy? Nonsense! Hypo- crisy!
Ghana will soon be a People's Democracy! Critics may snipe, and Liberals may gripe. What do I care, if the mangoes are ripe?
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