I think there were a lot of strikes and other forms of transportation problem that summer. Like most summers really. Anyway, I chose to write this for NewsRevue:
LONDON TRANSPORT
(To the Tune of “Paint Your Wagon”)
INTRO
Tubes, tubes, tubes, tubes;
TUBES, TUBES;
Got a Game Boy, got a book,
London Transport is deep in shtook.VERSE 1
Where am I going, I don’t know,
Where am I headin’, I ain’t certain,
All that I know is I’m NOT on my way;
When will I be there, I don’t know,
When will I get there, I ain’t certain,
All that I know is I’m NOT on my way.Got a Game Boy, got a song,
But the tube trains don’t come along.VERSE 2
Ou est le Metro, ne sais quoi?
Wann fahrt der Zug ab, Ich wusste nicht dass,
Nil desperandum, vis inertiae;
Why do I sing in mock Chinese?
Why am chanting in mock Swedish?
Passes the time while tubes do not arrive.Once the tourists have gone away,
Then the drivers might get more pay.OUTRO
Where are they going, I don’t know,
When will they be there I ain’t certain,
What will they get I ain’t equiped to say;
But who gives a damn, who gives a damn, let’s holiday!!
Below is a video with the Paint Your Wagon theme song playing. I had never previously noted the “even worse than Dick Van Dyke cockerney” line early in this movie version of the song – listen out for it: