After visiting Coxwold today and attending the memorial service for cyclists, during which we sang John Bunyan's 'To be a Pilgrim', and then spending the rest of the afternoon trying to recruit Volunteers to help at LEL COxwold Control, I came up with the following!! John Bunyan wrote the original whilst serving a goal term for preaching without a license, please don't lock me up for my preaching...but..it's got to be said..so...humming 'to be a pilgrim in your heads...
Who would true volunteer,
Oh, come to Coxwold;
We here will constant be,
Come wind, come weather
There’s no discouragement
We’ll make you enjoy event
Your first avowed intent
To be a volunteer.
Whoso beset us round
With dismal stories
Do but themselves confound;
Our strength, the more there is.
No cyclist can us fright,
We’ll with a giant fight,
We will have a right
To be a volunteer.
Audax cyclist nor foul fiend
Can daunt our spirit,
We know, when at the end
We Shall peace inherit.
Then fancies fly away,
We’ll fear not what men say,
We’ll labour night and day
To be a Volunteer.
And by the way...Sleepy made me do it!!
