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(To be sung to a traditional Blues tune; if you don't know one
make up your own)
The folk who live in Alcester, still have the railway
blues,
The folk who live in Alcester sure have the railway blues,
They couldn't believe it in Nineteen Sixty Two.
O Doctor Beeching, what did you do?
O Doctor Beeching, what did you do?
When you closed the Midland Loop in Sixty Two?
A hundred years before, when navvies built the Loop,
A century before, when navvies built the Loop,
They joined us to Bristol and Brum and made us cock-a-hoop.
The Midland Loop, it was a very good line,
Yes, the Midland Loop was a very good line,
Evesham, Alcester and Redditch thought it mighty fine.
The folk of Alcester still have the railway blues,
No, the people round here never lost the railway blues,
The memory of Beeching they'd willingly lose.