Drury Lane! Drury Lane!

Drury Lane! Drury Lane!

They shout and they bellow again and again.

All, all in vain!

Water turns steam;

Each blazing beam

Hisses defiance to the eddying spout,

It seems but too plain that nothing can put it out!

Drury Lane! Drury Lane!

See, Drury Lane expires!