While you were gone a bear came into the room
Compartment?
Yes
Overhead
The Bristol suspension bridge
But in France
Crossing the channel
Or the Severn
? And a bear you say?
Yes
I had to clean the compartments
That was my job
On a venicular railway
Funicular
I said? She said yea, or nay
My pronunciation was off
Ven- like a vein I said? or Fun- like a funnel?
The debate never did get resolved because there was the bear
A Polar Bear? Yeah well
It could have been brown
A brown bear there in the town?
In this very room I had to tame it and play
And even then I never turned my back on it,
Like they say
But all of a sudden another one came
Two bears! Yeah! I couldn't believe it and this other one taught the other to stand
He whom I had tamed and there he was as I was ruffling his mane
He stand taller than I and growled
Unlike a performing bear
This bear was wild
But it made me mad too
For all that care I had given to you, I said
And this is how you repay me! My shoulders grew
And the hair on the back of my neck was on end
And the bear cowered in the end
Then I felt bad to have dominated him so
But the alternative would surely have meant my being mauled by two
From head to toe
I left that job cleaning this the gondalas that run on the ski lift across the Bristol Channel
