What are the lyrics to wind in the willows twenty years?

Answer 1

(Belongs to Out of the ark music)

Clerk: Order! Order! Silence! Please be upstanding for his honour, the Chairman of the Bench of

Magistrates! (Enter Chairman)

CHAIRMAN

1 I'm the Chairman of the Bench of Magistrates.

Please may we now proceed?

In the case of the Crown versus Mr Toad

I think we are all agreed.

2 In view of the clearest evidence

His guilt is plain to see.

Now it only remains for the court to choose

The maximum penalty.

ALL (All court rise to sing:)

CHORUS Twenty years! Twenty years!

For this terrible crime.

Twenty years! Twenty years!

It's a very long time

To be locked up, banged up, hung out to dry,

Twenty years behind bars

For the rest of his life!

(Chairman: Order! Order! We must first hear from the Clerk.)

CLERK

3 The theft of a valuable motor-car

Deserves twelve months at least.

And supposing we said three more years on top

For driving at dangerous speeds?

4 But the issue of his gross impertinence

To our esteemed police,

Will demand that we sentence him 15 years.

POLICEMAN (Spoken)

That's lenient for his cheek!

CHORUS

CLERK

5 If we add the figures up efficiently,

That's nineteen years in all.

But it seems it would make better sense all round

If it were to be just one more.