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Barry the Badger
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That old Woolston Ferry coming towards me,

Coming for to carry me home . . .

 

If you're ever out in Sholing

And you want to go to town

Don't you go via Bitterne

That's the long way round

Take a trip across the ferry

Take a trip across the sea

And if you're a pedestrian, you can go for free . .

 

 

Guess i'll finish off then

 

 

On the Woolston Ferry

It doesn't travel very fast

It was never built for comfort

It was built to last

 

On two steel hauses

Across the river it'll creep

The steel glints in the sunlight

And flops back into the deep

And from the deck of the ferry

What a wonderful sight

All they shipwrights grafting

At Thorneycrofts on the right

 

On the Woolston Ferry

It doesn't travel very fast

It was never built for comfort

It was built to last

 

Go and see Lowry's painting

In the art gallery

Of this wonderful relic of a past centruy

When I sing of its construction

You'll be surprised to learn

That the bow going one way

Coming back becomes the stern!

 

On the Woolston Ferry

It doesn't travel very fast

It was never built for comfort

It was built to last

 

See the weather-beaten captain

With his weather-beaten tan

He don't wear no gold braid

He's a corporation man

And the captains of the ferry

They're a dying race

Cos there ain't no ex-tram drivers

To go and take their place

 

On the Woolston Ferry

It doesn't travel very fast

It was never built for comfort

It was built to last

 

But the floating bridge has had it

They say it's got to go

Cos the motorists don't like it

At 15p a throw

So they build a bridge of concrete

Very modern, very high

But every time I use it

I look down on either side . . .

 

On the Woolston Ferry

It doesn't travel very fast

It was never built for comfort

It was built to last, to last

Edited by Master Bates
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