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Twas the first test of the ashes series 1993Australia had only managed 289 and wefelt all was going to planthat first innings at Old Trafford.Then Merv Hughes and his handlebar moustachedismissed poor Athers.I took the crease to great applause,and focussed on me dinner.I knew that I had little cause to fear their young leg spinner.He loosened up his shoulderand with no run up at all,he rolled his right arm over and he let go of the ball.It was jiggery pokery, trickery, jokery.How did he open me up?Robbery, muggery, Aussie Skullduggery.Out for a buggering duck.What a delivery,I might as well have been,holding a contra bassoon.Jiggery pokery who was this nobody,making me look a buffoon?Like a blithering old buffoon.SongtexteAt first the ball looked straight enough,I had it in me sights,but such was its rotationthat it swerved out to the right.I thought "Well, that's a leg break,that's easily defended."So I stuck my left leg out and jammed my bat against it.But the ball it span obscenelyand out of the rough it jumped,veered across my bat and pad,clipping my off stump.It took a while to hit me, I momentarily lingered, but then I saw old Dickie Birdslowly raise his finger.It was jiggery pokery, trickery, jokery.How did he open me up?Robbery, muggery, Aussie Skullduggery.Out for a buggering duck.What a delivery,I might as well have been,holding a child's balloon.Jiggery pokery who was this nobody,making me look a buffoon?Like an accident prone baboon.How such a ball could be bowledI don't know, but if you asked meif it had been a cheese roll, it would never have got past me.It was jiggery pokery, trickery, jokery.How did he open me up?Robbery, muggery, Aussie Skullduggery.What in the buggerywas his delivery?I might as well have been holding a cob of corn.Jiggery pokery, who was this nobodymaking me look so forlorn?I hate Shane Warne!!!! Aus Songtexte Mania