Poem My Friend Wrote About Tourists Mixing Up Saint John, NB with St. John's, NL

[Acey]

My friends have this hanging in one of their rooms in their Bed and Breakfast.

 

SAINT JOHN

It's really very simple,

Saint John is spelled out so.

It's wrongly spelled quite often

So we thought you'd like to know.

It's blasphemy to contract the Saint

so spell Saint John completely,

and don't you dare add apostrophe 's'

to put it quite succinctly.

We're proud of our fine city

for it's Saint John not St. John.

And we feel it's such a pity

to be referred to as St. John's.

For the latter is in Newfoundland

a city as proud as we.

We both have very fine people

but separate identities.

So, when you speak or write the name

though this verse be gone,

nothing else is quite the same;

for there's only one Saint John.

Wayne D. Harrison

[sapper1]

My friends have this hanging in one of their rooms in their Bed and Breakfast.

 

SAINT JOHN

It's really very simple,

Saint John is spelled out so.

It's wrongly spelled quite often

So we thought you'd like to know.

It's blasphemy to contract the Saint

so spell Saint John completely,

and don't you dare add apostrophe 's'

to put it quite succinctly.

We're proud of our fine city

for it's Saint John not St. John.

And we feel it's such a pity

to be referred to as St. John's.

For the latter is in Newfoundland

a city as proud as we.

We both have very fine people

but separate identities.

So, when you speak or write the name

though this verse be gone,

nothing else is quite the same;

for there's only one Saint John.

Wayne D. Harrison

I like that Acey!!

[Polar Bear]

My friends have this hanging in one of their rooms in their Bed and Breakfast.

 

SAINT JOHN

It's really very simple,

Saint John is spelled out so.

It's wrongly spelled quite often

So we thought you'd like to know.

It's blasphemy to contract the Saint

so spell Saint John completely,

and don't you dare add apostrophe 's'

to put it quite succinctly.

We're proud of our fine city

for it's Saint John not St. John.

And we feel it's such a pity

to be referred to as St. John's.

For the latter is in Newfoundland

a city as proud as we.

We both have very fine people

but separate identities.

So, when you speak or write the name

though this verse be gone,

nothing else is quite the same;

for there's only one Saint John.

Wayne D. Harrison

 

Now if we could just get the rest of the world to understand to difference between the two.....We may not so many sad face's when I tell a cruiseship passenger that they are in Saint John NB not St. John's NL:rolleyes:

[Susie51]

Thank you for the poem. I know I am guilty of mixing up the two cities and their spellings.

[Luckysll]

It's amazing what little tidbits you remember........

 

I was taught in school - to get to St. John's you have to cross the sea