When first I used the railway,

’Twas in Mugby Junction days,

With their sandwiches so salt and stale,

Their buns with the fly-blown glaze,

Their Melton pies of weight and size,

Soup too hot down to fling,

And sausage-rolls, if not men’s souls,

Their stomachs made to wring.

As you jumped from your first-class car,

The minxes at Mugby Bar