THE GAS, THE DAZZLING GAS!

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 206, 31 August 1871, Page 2

THE GAS, THE DAZZLING GAS!

A. SONG. [The following lines have been forwarded to us by a gentleman in Nelson, -who composed them and has set them to music. The theme he has chosen "may possibly account for the rather iuflated style of the composition.] Come people of Nelson, from slumber arise, : A new brilliant planet will visit our. skies; Our joys and bur pleasures then, nought will surpass, For Nelson will shortly be blazing with gas. * We scarcely shall know when the evenings set iu, The streets will be light, we may pick up a pin; The birds they will carol their songs all the night, The children will frolic and play with delight. Chobus — O, the gas, the gas, the dazzling gas, Which, when the works are done, Will give us a light that will dazzle our sight The whole of the night as strong and as bright As ever a Christmas sun. The Provincial Hall will then people surprise; The dullest of Councillors the Gas will inake 'wise ! Police not needed; no robberies done For we shall enjoy a perpetual sun. . . Our hotels will then in great splendor appear; - ; ; The landlords will get ready sale for their ■ beer. . . ; , : , The top-heavy gents, if they can walk at all, May see their way home without getting a fall. ,".;„•.■■. 0, the gas, the gas, &c, &c, &c. The dungeon-dark shops which the Drapers display Will then be made bright as a midsummer's day. The ladies may buy from a robe to a pin Nor blame the keen shopman for taking them in. The Fishermen's labors will mostly be o'er, For fishes by thousands will flock to the shore; The gay jolly cabbies, why surely they may Their lamps and their side-lights toss into the sea. 0, the Gas, the Gas, &c, &c, &c. The pipes being'laid "and completed: the work, A patent- slip next we'll have at the Port; Nor labor nor progress ev'nhere shall stand still For a Railroad "we'll have all the .way to Foxhill. Those people who've money and willing to lend <:',■:■. '>■ Will find that the money we freely will spend Adopting the customs and rules of the day We'll borry the money; let others repay. : ; , 0, the gas, the gaij &c., &&, &c.