Croydon will be the 2023 Borough of Culture and is planning a music festival and a recycling fashion show.
hopefully bonzo 3 legs will be singing how much is that doggy in the window but since croydon is 9 miles from london how about
I've done my share of shearing sheep,
Of droving and all that,
And bogged a bullock team as well,
On the Penge and Croydon flat.
I've seen the bullock stretch and strain,
And blink his bleary eye,
And the dog shat on the tuckerbox
Nine miles from London aye.

I've been jilted, jarred and crossed in love,
And sand-bagged in the dark,
Till if a mountain fell on me,
I'd treat it as a lark.
It's when you've got your bullocks bogged
That's the time you flog and cry,
And the dog sits on the tucker box,
Nine miles from London aye.

We've all got our little troubles,
In life's hard, thorny way.
Some strike them in a motor car
And others in a dray.
But when your dog and bullocks strike
It ain't no apple pie,
And the dog shat on the tucker box
Nine miles from London aye.

But that's all past and dead and gone,
And I've sold the team for meat,
And perhaps some day where I was bogged,
There'll be an asphalt street,
The dog, ah! well he got a bait,
And thought he'd like to die,
So I buried him in the tucker box,
Nine miles from London aye.