Bonny Portmore, anti-HS2 version

 Last night, at a Green Party conference event, I sang this version of "Bonny Portmore" to mourn the loss of woodlands, and other natural habitats, to the white elephant that is HS2.

Lyrics:

O bonny Portmore, we are sorry to see

Such a woeful destruction of your ornament tree

For it stood on those forests for many a long day

Till those HS2 workers brutally cut you away.

O bonny Portmore, you shine where you stand

And the more we think on you the more we think long

If we had you now as we had once before

All those bankers in London would not purchase Portmore.

All the birds in the forest they bitterly weep

Saying, "A dirty great railway line is no place we can sleep."

All those poor woodlands, they are now gone for eternity

Just so rich fools can cut ten minutes from their train journey.

All the birds in the forest they bitterly weep

Saying, "A dirty great railway line is no place we can sleep."

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