| Boston, Boston, my home town I know I have arrived When I see from Twenty Miles The Stump before my eyes! |
Towns are there for peoples lives Towns are there for food Towns do need their traffic To be any Good! |
It takes a while, it always does And hair is torn & things look good Things get worse and then get better Bypass roads are built, and Tescos! |
| This is MY CITY Fair and Good Though it is called a Town The traffic, it's appalling though It just goes round and round |
People do get fed up though When the traffic stops Sometimes when you only want To go in for the shops |
Ah that's not what we expected Out of town shops are projected Oh, what happens now we say? All the traffic's gone away! |
| To get across the River Is what you need to do And there is only one way now To get the traffic through |
Or sometimes when you want to get In to work or home again And that blasted traffic Drives YOU round the bend |
All the traffic? Well quite, nearly Town is quiet, shops are really Quite surprised and start to worry No one now is in a hurry! |
| To go around is tried by some We have tried some tricks But never do we seem to save We end up in the sticks! |
Then you may begin to think Is there a better way? To organise my life To organise my day |
No one now because there IS none Shops are dying, markets, all down! Oh my God, what have we done? We have killed our lovely town! |
| But it is not as bad as some Much better than a lot The people here, think they know Do they though? Or do they not? |
So people start to make a plan To build a new road round To take the traffic out of town Then we can get around! |
This was not supposed to happen No, oh no, we cannot stop it It's disaster we have made Boston is just like the Grave |
| I have travelled far and wide Been all over the world I've seen traffic crawling That made by big toes curl! |
It is so obvious a thing Why think we not before Oh such an easy thing to do! We are so true, and sure! |
All those people now do shop Out of Town and out they stop Now we like it not at all We will blame the new Town Hall! |
| I have seen traffic in big towns And traffic in the small The only place they have it not Sark Island and Nepal! |
But then along comes someone Who's seen this all before Just like we started out in this This Poem says it all! |
They should have known They should have stopped it WE'LL make them suffer now THEY'VE LOST IT! |
| But Towns are meant for traffic Towns are meant to be Busy, bustling places Where there's lots to see! |
Towns are scattered far and wide That have this route partaken Bypass the Town they shout and so A plan forms and is taken! |
WilF September 2009 |