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KEEP TRAVEL PASSES-FREE

The following verses were supplied by the West Midlands Convention newsletter and have been written by BARBARA ALFORD,  a member of Coventry Branch of British Pensioners' Trade Union Action Association and set to well known tunes.
They could add colour to the WMC campaign to KEEP TRAVEL PASSES-FREE
Well done and thanks Barbara. 

Come on - lets have a sing-along!!

Oh, it's a shocker. what they will do,
They want to stop free bus passes.
Make it hard for me and you.
Take away our freedoms,
What they'll do to us,
Oh but we'll stop them
'cause we're going to make a fuss.

Sung to the tune of "OH Mr. Porter"
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We're here today to say No Way.
To stopping free bus passes.

To save some cash, the poor they bash.
By stopping free bus passes.

But come what may, we'll have our say
To save free bus passes.

We won't give in, we'll fight to win
To keep our free bus passes.

Sung to the tune of "Deep in the heart of Texas"
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Save our free bus passes, That's what we all say.
All our lives we've striven, Worked hard and paid our way.
Now's the time for giving, A little bit back to us.
Not the moon that we're after, just freedom to use the bus.

Sung to the tune of "The Eton Boating song"
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Keep your hands of our free bus passes
Don't you take them away.

They make our lives a little better
for without them we can say,

Goodbye, trips for shopping Farewell seeing friends.
If you take away our free bus passes.

Our social life ends.

Its the wrong way to make a profit,
Its the wrong way you know.

Hitting those who are the poorest,
How can someone sink so low.

Goodbye trips to family, Farewell sing-a-long.

Its not only cruel to end free bus passes.
Its just downright wrong.

Sung to the tune of "TIPPERARY"