A London cable indicates that Larwood, the English fast bowler, has been "gagged and bound." He has a tale to tell, it is said, that will shock cricketing England, but he will not tell it.

LARWOOD:
   I have a tale to tell, O!
ENGLAND:
   Tell me your tale, O!
LARWOOD:
   'Tis the tale of a ball
   And a batsman's fall
And a line on the leg-side ball, O!
'Tis a tale I'd tell, but I must keep mum;
For my tongue is tied and my lips are dumb.
You have heard much talk, but there's more to come
   Of a game that was said to be shady.
      Heighdy!  Heighdy!
      Misery me, Lackadaydee!
There has much been told, but there's more to come
   Of a game that was said to be shady.

ENGLAND:
   I have a tale to tell, O!
LARWOOD:
   Tell me your tale, O!
ENGLAND:
   'Tis a loud lament
   In a cable sent
And in letters received by mail, O!
'Tis the tale of a busy Board moaning loud,
And the Marylebone Cricket Club, pearly proud,
Who read their rot and who laughed aloud
At the tale of the cricketers moping mum
Whose brows were bruised and who'd thumped a thumb;
But we gave them sympathy not one crumb,
   When they said that the game was shady,
      Heighdy!  Heighdy!
      Misery me, Lackadaydee!
We are sportsmen all, and we cried, "Come, come!"
   When they said that the sport was shady.

LARWOOD:
   I have a tale to tell, O!
ENGLAND:
   Tell me your tale, O!
LARWOOD:
   It would raise a row
   If I told you now,
And I'd probably go to gaol, O!
'Tis a terrible tale of the team and the trip;
But never one word will pass my lip
Of the sights I saw and the things I know
Of Thingamebob and So-and-So,
Of this and that, but I must keep mum,
For the tellng might come too hard on some;
So my lips are sealed and my voice is dumb
   Of the game that was said to be shady.
      Heighdy!  Heighdy!
      Misery me, Lackadaydee!
But you'll probably faint when the details come
  Of the game that was said to be shady.

"Den"
Herald, 6 April 1933, p16