Spanish Ayes

A William Topaz McGonagall poetic response to Magaluf

Of sunshine Scotland doth not have enough so some say And would prefer for to go to Magaluf and stay On an island which did form off the Spanish peninsula 150 million years ago and was quite insular Till came the Carthaginian then, in 123 BC, the Roman Which for building roads was a very good omen. But tak care afore ye do go for certain seers do foretell That the future of Magaluf doth not bode well, They say marauding drunks will despoil the place Bringing upon the town very dire disgrace And that one will fall from a high balcony one day Like those who on that Sabbath of 1879 fell into the Tay. But ye who do fear such a future can relax, Because of the Balearic Isles’ unpopular tourist tax There are some who do believe that one day, happily, We may again choose to holiday in beautiful Torquay.