An Octopus Has Three Hearts

This is a collection of ten original modern folk ballads. All are satirical tongue in cheek or just good fun! Diverse themes of love (especially for an octopus) getting old (especially for a cowboy) war from a child's point of view money and fame spiritual awareness and finding a way through the trials of the human condition but always with humour. Parodies of Milton and Dante are here along with over-the-top pantomime and seaside postcard characters. It is a feast of rhyme and rhythm where the reader will enjoy a poetical journey from the ocean bed up to Heaven back to wartime Britain across the plains of America into a Welsh Valley village through Dartmoor Forest and down to the very center of Hell itself ! It features a geriatric cowboy a romantic octopus a jellyfish with no brain hats a plenty a bloodthirsty megalomaniacal pirate God Himself Satan himself a pretty horse drunkards a retired Hell's Angel an unexploded bomb and a gang of rude folkies...