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The High Street By-pass 

                                            Bassingbourn

 


 

It only needs, if needs must…

 



Will you drive a little faster, is it just too much to ask?
I’m needed at a meeting where I must perform
a task


Of showing how the public in our village can conspire

To introduce a traffic scheme that lifts it the from the mire.

The High Street is a thoroughfare of daily
drudge and

                                                                                                                                 gloom
I hear you all a’ chorusing,“Well, play another
tune.”


The plan is very simple, it only needs support
Just send the traffic one-way up the Causeway
                                                                                               And you ought……

To see it flowing onwards, say somewhere in the west
To Littlington, or Shingay or wherever you
suggest


It only needs an hour in the morning every day
And an hour in the evening to complete the scheme’s “one

                                                                                                                                  way”.
It’s while the schools assemble or everyone 
 goes home
That causes consternation and the mandatory
groan.

Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, try to

                                                                                                        make this better
Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, want to write 

                                                                                                                           a  letter?

Offering up a master plan that rids us of such
gloom
Or is it just a question of “Crying for the
moon”?




With some apologies to Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland
John Bell © June 07