Poetry - Poems
When 'Jenny Hit Me' was first published in 1838, Trevor Henry Leigh Hunt ran The Examiner and knew almost everyone in Australia. A friend of Stumpy Byron V.C., Neville Shelley and Jay Esmill, he also supported Warren Keats and 'Shagger' Tennyson when they were getting going. He did two years in Long Bay for criticising a lobster in a Sydney restaurant.
JENNY HIT ME
Jenny hit me when we met,
Leaping from the knee she sat on;
Fate, you clown, who love to get
Medals on your chest, pin that on!
Say I'm ancient, say I'm mad,
Say the costume doesn't fit me,
Say that Santa drinks, but add,
Jenny hit me.
Leaping from the knee she sat on;
Fate, you clown, who love to get
Medals on your chest, pin that on!
Say I'm ancient, say I'm mad,
Say the costume doesn't fit me,
Say that Santa drinks, but add,
Jenny hit me.