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The Ballad of the Raggedy Man

There once was a man with a bowtie

 

And a little redhead girl

 

I'm gonna tell you the truth now

 

She loved him and he loved her.

 

They sat around the table

 

With fish fingers and custard, ice cream

 

They talked about his big blue box

 

And her family

 

In the middle of their midnight snack

 

An alarm rang from TARDIS, blue

 

He told her he would be back

 

In just a minute, or two

 

He accidentally missed his mark

 

Twelve years had gone by

 

But he just sauntered out

 

Waving and saying "Amelia, hi!"

 

Twas the first time they saved the world

 

When Amelia was just nineteen

 

Two years later he picked her up

 

On the eve of her wedding

 

But then the cracks in the universe

 

And all of space and time

 

Consumed the Doctor, all of him

 

But that's not the ending rhyme

 

The night she and Rory wed

 

Amy jumped out of her chair

 

"I remember you!" She shouted

 

And the Doctor appeared there

 

And so the Raggedy man came back

 

No more in the crack in the wall

 

Amy's imaginary friend

 

Bowtie, suspenders, and all

 

Later came an astronaut

 

Her name was River Song

 

She lifted her hand and against her will

 

Killed the Doctor, gone.

 

But, hooray!

 

The Doctor wasn't dead

 

It was wibbly wobbly, timey wimey

 

Stuff messing with their heads

 

And Amy had a daughter

 

Name? Melody Pond.

 

But the only water in the forest is rivers,

 

So she was really River Song.

 

Subtract love,

 

Add hate

 

Daleks scream

 

Exterminate!

 

Angels, Angels everywhere

 

Take a little blink

 

In the ground and in the air

 

And then they took Rory

 

"Come along Pond, please!"

 

He said with a cry

 

She turned to him and said

 

"Raggedy man, goodbye!"

 

"No!" He shouts in despair

 

"It can't be true!"

 

He stands over their grave

 

Oh Ponds, he loved you

 

He sits on the steps

 

Letting River fly

 

Too grief stricken to hurt

 

Or even to cry

 

Dreams are broken

 

Time stands still

 

The Doctor runs up

 

A small rocky hill

 

Afterword, it reads

 

By Amelia Pond

 

We love you Doctor

 

And we're sorry we're gone

 

There's a girl waiting in a garden

 

She'll be waiting for a while

 

So go to her

 

She needs a smile.

 

Tell her she's a fairytale

 

Known by many, loved by more

 

Not best in the universe,

 

But most important in the world.

 

She went with him and took his hand

 

He showed her the stars and distant lands

 

Together they ran, their spirits high

 

Until they day came when they said goodbye

 

Goodbye, Ponds.

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