And in return......a song about trams (in Manchester!).

    Memories and Metrolink

   I'll sing you a tale of some heroes,
   Who proved a great boon to man,
   But heroes now barely remembered,
   Who gave you the gift of the tram!

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   Sing toury aye oury aye annie,
   Sing toury aye oury aye eh,
   Sing toury aye oury aye annie,
   Now Metrolink's here for to stay!

   We'll start with old John Greenwood,
   In Salford he made such a fuss!
   With his guide rail laid down the posh Crescent,
   The inventor of the 'five wheeled bus'.

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   The next one's the first real promoter,
   But he often did argue in vain,
   For a 'streetcar' a quaint yankee notion.
   His name it was George Francis Train.

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   Let's hear it for James McElroy,
   As the Manchester track map unfurled,
   His motormen, guards, and trolleyboys,
   The best system in the the whole damn world!

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   A pause while we think of a future,
   A future that was never to be.
   Henry Mattinson's tramway ambitions,
   Died in Devon, with him, by the sea.

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   A man saws away with a hacksaw.
   His life to us all was a gift,
   Just like his collection of tram rail.
   We'll remember you Stanley swift!

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   Now their ghosts begin to assemble,
   By Lewis's, atop Market Street,
   And as the first set turns the corner,
   The 'Metrolink' future they'll greet!

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