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The amity cinema stood where Woolworth's is today
where gypsies sold their heather sweet every Saturday
in Poole high street the folks all came some in horse and cart
the folks came early then if they were really smart

 on wareham quay the monkey danced and collected pennies grand
people would rattle his cage and he would try to bite their hands
the river it froze to block of ice upon a Xmas holiday
kids skated there n frolicked and folks came from miles away

on clouds hill the Arab rider was hidden in his cottage small
there were trees upon the egdon heath and pines a growing tall
the tanks they rolled there daily and their guns they did roar
close by the woolbrige manor house and its splendid hall

the ducks they waddled in the stream at wool and durberville was cool
when hardy wrote of Tess and love and we caught a train to Poole
rhodendians stretched through sandfords roads and the postman came to call
there were histories made in castle corfe then once Romans roamed the walls

the mad miller of wareham told his stories there and st Marys rang its bells
whilst Churchill rode to canford lanes so did the prince of wales
queen Victoria bathed on weymouth beach and royalty came to call
with Dorset cream and Dorset cake and knobs with crabs at durdle door

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