Pink cavalier, pink cavalier, at last I have you in my trap with a new fly, funny blue fly, I coax you to rise and snap! Now you can try to buck, dive or wing, shimmy, double back, try anything. If you’ve got a religion meet your god, dance to the play of my bending rod. Salmon! Salmon! Made to please the diner. Some dance, some prance, I’ll say there’s nothing finer than the salmon! Salmon! Gee, how they struggle. Every trick you do leads to something new. Man I’m telling you, it’s lapazoo. Dive dance, rise dance will be a back number for the salmon, the true salmon, your dance is surely over. Dance your dance one last time. I’ll cook you salmon – So get ready to dine! Pink cavalier, pink cavalier, at last I have you in my trap with a new fly, funny blue fly, I coax you to rise and snap! Now you can try to buck, dive or wing, shimmy, double back, try anything. If you’ve got a religion meet your god, dance to the play of my bending rod.
Pink Cavalier
Perhaps to be performed to the tune of ‘The Charleston’ by James P. Johnson, from the musical ‘Runnin’ Wild’ 1923.
Mar 10, 2026
New and selected
Poems including some from my New and Selected Poems, published as ‘Jizz' in the UK by Kingston University Press in the UK and as ‘Nest’ in North America by Red Hen Press.
Poems including some from my New and Selected Poems, published as ‘Jizz' in the UK by Kingston University Press in the UK and as ‘Nest’ in North America by Red Hen Press.Listen on
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