The Busman's Prayer

The Busman's Prayer
A version of the Lord's Prayer

Our Father, Who art in Hendon
Harrow Road be Thy name
Thy Kingston come
Thy Wimbledon
In Erith as it is in Hendon.
Give us this day our Berkhampstead
And forgive us our Westminsters
As we forgive those who Westminster against us.
Lead us not into Temple Station
And deliver us from Ealing,
For thine is the Kingston
The Purley and the Crawley,
For Iver and Esher,
Crouch End.

Our buses which art in the depot,
Hallowed be thy tyres.
Thy service operate, or thy will be done,
In Chiselhurst as in Hendon,
Give us this day our hourly buses,
And forgive us for not buying our bus tickets,
As we forgive those that smoke on the lower deck,
And lead the bus not in the wrong direction,
But deliver us on time,
For London Transport has the monopoly,
The power and the Glory,
Until the wretched bus breaks down again..