Brannigan 2006 Speech and Song

Each year at my birthday, known as The Brannigan, I perform a special speech and song. These are the speech and song from Brannigan 2006.

Speech:

This poem is for someone, but you know who you are. This poem is called Brannigan’s Love. (pause)

Brannigan’s Law
I’ll get you like Doctor Claw
A pact made in Warsaw.

Is like Brannigan’s love
Not a concept of wuv
Enterprise orbits above.

Hard and fast
Like the Black Pearl’s mast
And a fireball cast.

Just turned twenty-two
This day I rue
Balls are still blue.

Song:

(bow) I shall now butcher a song.

I’ve loved, I’ve laughed and cried.
I’ve had my fill; my share of losing.
And now, as tears subside,
I find it all so amusing.

To think I did all that;
And may I say – not in a shy way,
No, oh no not me,
I did it my way.

For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feels;
And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows -
And did it my way.