In my visits to Amsterdam, I've probably been to most of the museums, but I’d never been to Madame Tussauds. That was until one nice evening when I saw it just facing Dam Square. To kill time before my evening meal I went in and God I'm glad I did. Normally, on tours and things, when I have to change chairs, I don't like it. It bugs me - but when I saw this pretty Dutch girl coming towards me to push me around all day I said, ‘No problem’ and jumped in that other chair quicker than Usain Bolt.
CALL HER MY TULIP
Past the timid canals and the rowdy hoards
I fell in love at Madame Tussauds,
she was very real, not of wax,
her name was Ella
and a few more facts:
She was the tour guide who pushed me around,
in those few hours I felt 50 feet off the ground.
She liked the artists,
she liked green tea,
my mind mumbled, like a bee,
that pure honey was talking to no-one else,
no-one else but me.
So, past the timid canals and the rowdy hoards,
I fell in love at Madame Tussauds.
She said, ‘I like your humour,
I like your kind face.’
I thought, I like your everything.
But stuck in a museum lift was not the time nor place,
as the afternoon warmed from the morning cold
I had a strange sensation to put my life on hold.
For a stranger,
so strange, I must be -
but that pure honey was talking to no-one else,
no-one else but me.
So, past the timid canals and rowdy hoards,
I fell in love,
yes, I fell in love at Madame Tussauds.
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