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:-) Subject: Channel Tunnel
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The following lines have, apparently been circulating round Strasbourg
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and parts of the financial community. The author is anonymous but
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clearly an Englishman!.
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Ode to the Chunnel
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or
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Why the English do not want a Channel Tunnel
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There'll be carloads of Louises There'll be Swedes of charmless candour
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From Parisian stripteases Coming over to philander,
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Importing foul diseases Spreading left-wing propaganda
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Into Kent. About wealth.
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There'll be modern French Wells Fargoes Belgian girls of vast proportions
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Sending juggernauts with cargoes Who have failed to take precautions
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Of frogslegs and escargots Driving over for abortions
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And men's scent. On the Health.
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There'll be Dutchmen too, by jingo, There'll be Spanish senoritas
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Who'll refuse to speak the lingo, Jamming all our parking meters
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Coming over for the bingo With their miserable pesetas
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And the dogs. (I don't know !).
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And through this umbilical, And senoras doing sambas
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Seeking knickers from St. Michael, Shouting "vamos" and "caramba"
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Girls from Rotterdam will cycle And believing that the amber
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In their clogs. Light means "Go".
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There'll be Danes on every corner There'll be Austrians with poodles
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Faces pink after a sauna, Wanting membership of Boodles
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trying hard to sell us porno Then demanding apple strudels
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Graphic books. With their tea.
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There'll be men like Julius Caesar There'll be lecherous Kuwaitis
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Getting in without a visa Driving lorryloads of Katies
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Careless architects from Pisa From the Thames to the Euphrates
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Bloody crooks. C.O.D.
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There'll be wealthy German campers There'll be men from Lithuania
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With enormous picnic hampers From Rumania and Albania
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Full of sauerkraut and champers From Tasmania and Pennsylvania
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And pork pies. I've no doubt.
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There'll be Eyeties slick and smarmy, So, dear immigration panel
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Reared on pizza and salami, Boys in sports jackets and flannel,
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Turning up at Veeraswamy Please protect our English Channel
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Without ties. Throw them out!.
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This does not reflect the views of my employer but we've all had a jolly
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good laugh
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==
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Tim Stone
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S.G. Warburg & Co., Inc.
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