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Whenever John Betjeman is mentioned I get a nostalgic flashback to the late 70's when my dad used to play this recording he had obtained of JB reading 'A Shropshire Lad'.
Of course because it was my dad and I was in my teens along with my younger brother and sister and we were into I dunno Adam and the Ants or some other shit that was popular at the time we ribbed him endlessly about this. But the old 'swimming along, swimming along to Dawley' line has stuck in my brain ever since.
It's Proto rap I suppose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jnT4tOl_qQ