My sincere apologies to James Lord Pierpont…
Dashing through the hills
In a Mk1 Bugeye Sprite
Lucas Tungsten bulbs
Lighting up the Night
Horns on Midgets sound
Blinkers flashing bright
What fun it is to ride and sing
A Spritely song to night
Midgets Rule, Sprites are Cool
Clubmans lead the way
Oh, what fun it is to drive
On a summer Christmas night, hey
Jingle bells, Tappets yell
The clearances are out
If Father Christmas needs some help.
We’ll call the Sprite Club out.
A day or two ago
I thought we’d take a ride
And soon, with fading light
The Sprite was rolled outside
The car was lean and clean
But misfortune struck us low
The fuel pump did fail to tick
So in an Uber we did go
Jingle Bells, Petrol Smells
The SUs failed to fire
We couldn’t have any fun that night
As something was quite dire,
Alfas Rule, Midgets are cool,
Fords they rust away
We’d hope to take a ride that night,
But we ended in an old FJ!
A day or two ago
The story I must tell
I went back to the car
And on my back I fell
As I looked across
The problem I did see
And once it had been rectified
We could quickly drive away
Blue cars rule, red cars drool
The engine’s fired up
Oh, what fun it will be to ride
In a pale blue car tonight, (right??)
Jingle bells, something smells
The oil’s sprung a leak
Oh, what fun it is to fix
A Spridget late in the week
Now all the hills are green
The A Series burbles on
The wind whips through our hair
We sing this Sprite-ing song
Drop it down a gear
Around the bend we fly
Listen to the intake roar
And race off into the night
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In Mk1 Sprite all day, hey
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
If Santa needs a lift tonight
We can help him on his way!
Merry Christmas everyone! Hope to you see you all safe and well in the New Year!
(photo credits to Terry Shipard, and image borrowed from the internet, John Gazerk from the Midget Owners Group on Facebook and some random Sprite Club member with a camera at Victoria Square!)