‘Way up above the chimney tops’
Way up above the chimney tops
High up in the smokeless zone
Old age punks sip snakebite tops
And Johnny Rotten’s on the throne
Way up above the chimney tops
High up in the nuclear sky
Mary Poppins has been grounded
Her umbrella just won’t fly
Way up above the chimney tops
Kansas merged with Kettering
Despite the helpful signs
In iridescent lettering
Way up above the chimney tops
David Bowie took a day trip to the sun
Then fell to earth again
Sensing life had just begun
Way up above the chimney tops
High up in the smokeless zone
We look down on a world we didn’t make
But still can call our own
Also known as Auntie Pus (The Punk Balladeer), Julian Isaacs first sold his poetry in the corridors of Kensington Market in the early 1970s. Currently, he has just graduated in an English BA from the University of Exeter, has recently had poems published in the Plymouth Herald, and has published his dissertation sequence of poems inspired by the Great American Songbook: The Breathless Thrush of Unevensong in chapbook form.