Many of you know I drive buses in Cornwall. The company I work for has been long established in the area. At the moment we are under pressure from a rival company known as Go Cornwall (although they are run from over the border in Devon at the moment as Plymouth Citybus). This poem is just a tongue-in-cheek comment on ‘furriners’ coming down from Devon to show us how to run buses…and nothing more.
JAM FIRST (THE CREAM STAYS ON TOP)
If you’ve missed it on your media feed,
You may be wondering what the fuss is;
But a crowd’s coming down from ‘up country’
To take on the cream of Cornish buses.
They’re promising new bells and whistles so
You may think that it’s manna from heaven
But we brought you new buses and ticket machines
And best of all we don’t come from Devon.
They’re being a bit disingenuous,
Saying they are bringing the prices down
As that’s a government initiative
Which has to happen in each Cornish town.
Plymouth Citybus – now called Go Cornwall
Trying to make out that they’re the bee’s knees
When every man jack of us knows they
Can’t get it right when it comes to cream teas.
So, think on because it’s important,
As a Devon bus pulls up at your stop.
Do you really want your transport run
By a company who puts jam on top?
© gray lightfoot
Yes , and-
Bys y’gan bro, yn bus po ger,
A dheuth tra ker, po dehen po ro…
ma’s cows gerennow?! Ni a’n gwel yn cler!
In our country, by bus or to tell,
Came anything swell, whether cream, or for free…
except fine words freely?! We see en well!
http://bit.ly/eglyn (This one’s a baghek)
https://www.facebook.com/pg/Kesstriv-Eglyn-Kernewek-201516-1447554258804803/posts/
Let’s see they stick that on the side or backside of the bus 😉
(Nicely said there Gray, by yourself who must know the situation. Fingers crossed – I’ve been using buses a lot lately.)
I’ve started learning Cornish, Peter but I struggled with that bar the odd word. Thankfully you translated. The poem is just a bit of fun. One thing about bus drivers is that whoever runs the buses, you end up with the same drivers. Thanks for the kind comments.
LOL
I hope they remember that we can flag buses down anywhere were it is safe for them to stop. Michelle is hopping mad with them because they are changing the route.