A POEM OR SONG OR CHANT
THAT CELEBRATES THE TWO GREAT DAY TRIPS
ARRANGED BY THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY
IN 1868 AND 1876
TAKEN FROM THE POSTERS OF THE TIME
Poem by Michael Rosen
Commissioned by HistoryWorks
For ‘Creating My Cambridge’ S106 Project
Chorus 1: The DAY exCURSion to LONdon and BACK
Chorus 2: The day excursion to London and back
Chorus 1: FOResters FETE at the CRYstal PALace
Chorus 2: Foresters Fete at the Crystal Palace
Chorus 1: Oo-oo-woo [a mix of delight and the whistle of an engine]
Chorus 1: AUGust EIGHTeen SIXty-EIGHT
Chorus 2: August eighteen sixty-eight
Chorus 1: STARTing in CAMbridge at SIX-fifTEEN
Chorus 2: Starting in Cambridge at six-fifteen
Chorus 1: Oo-oo-woo
Chorus 1: STOPping at WHITTlesford, SAFFron WALden
STANsted NEXT, then BISHop’s STORTford.
Chorus 2: SAWbridgeWORTH and then it’s HARlow
ArrRIVing in LONdon at NINE o’CLOCK.
Chorus 1: Oo-oo-woo
Chorus 1: A SPEcial CHEAP ExCURsion TRAIN
Chorus 2: To WALton-ON-the NAZE and BACK
Chorus 1: AUGust EIGHTeen SEVenty SIX
Chorus 2: August eighteen seventy-six
Chorus 1: Oo-oo-woo
Chorus 2: Psssshhhhhtttt
Chorus 1: EARly START at TWENty past SIX.
Chorus 2: CAMbridge, SHELford, NEXT stop LINton
Chorus 1: SAFfron WALden, BARTlow, HAVerhill
Chorus 2: NEXT stop CLARE, and THEN it’s MELford
Chorus 1: Oo-oo-woo
Chorus 1: ArRIVing at WALton at NINE forty FIVE
Chorus 2: GREAT Eastern RAILway’s DAY at the SEAside
Chorus 1:The WHOLE round TRIP will COST you 3 BOB
Chorus 2: “No LUGGage allOWED”; “No LUGGage allOWED”
Chorus 1: Oo-oo-woo
Chorus 2: Psssshhhhhtttt
