Did you hear about that little boy?
‘That little boy, what little boy?’
The one who took a header in that pool off Brookmill Close!
‘The one who took a header?’
Yes, a header---such a header!

I told them it would happen---they don’t listen.
‘They don’t listen?’
No, they never ever listen,
Not until it really happens.
But it’s too late for young Jamie.

Only 3 and running swiftly,
Slipped and fell right in the middle!
‘In the middle?’
In the middle!
Where the water’s at its deepest.

I told them at his funeral
I’d tried and no one’d listened
They thanked me, ‘’Said it’s no use.
It’ll never bring him back.’’

Such a lovely child was Jamie!