For some reason I read him in the voice of the late lamented Ivor Cutler.
I knew you were a man of taste and refinement! Oh the much missed Ivor. I shall blow the dust off my 'Jammy Smears' LP and give it a spin later. Sings in best IC voice: "Jumping and pecking are the birds, jumping and pecking....."
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.