Summer 1997

To the Tune of Solidarity Forever (aka Glory Glory Hallelujah)

There are two classes, those who cycle and those who don't...
(*fill in your spoof of the IWW preamble here*)


Cycle Power Forever
When the inspiration to pedal through the pedestrian class shall run
There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun
For what propulsion force is weaker than the unaided feet of one
But cycling makes us strong

Refrain
Pedal power forever
Pedal power forever
Pedal power forever
For in cycling we are strong

Is there aught we hold in common with the polluting automobile?
Who would crush us while going fifty and would smash us with its steel
Is there any honour to it this "driving behind a wheel"?
No, but cycling makes us strong

It is we who must gear down when the hills are steep and high
It is we who go but twenty yet tis we who still must die
It is we who while travelling merrily are pushed to the road side
Yet cycling makes us strong

They have paved untold acres that they never toiled to earn
For without our taxpayer subsidies not a single axle would turn (not an ounce of oil would burn?)
We can break their transport monopoly gain our freedom when we learn
That cycling makes us strong

It is we who hold the power greater than their oil reserves
Greater than their laws of traffic magnified a thousand fold
We can build a cycler's paradise on the rubble of their roads
For cycling makes us strong!