Those Gresham Chimes, those Gresham Chimes!
They take us back to Tudor times,
When Merchant Princes felt no shame
To bear a civic magnate's name.
That name has sunk below disdain,
No Gresham dons the civic chain,
A Merchant Prince as soon would wear
The garb of Beadle as of Mayor.
But Mayors and such will soon be gone,
A new régime is coming on;