September 20th Ant-Hal (by Colin Ross)

September 20th Ant-Hal

“Here we go again, Off down the road again,

Leave Antig’nish, Hal’fax bound.”

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After havin’ a rest day

Recharging vocal chords,

We’re leaving Antigonish,

Halifax, towards.

Karl and Fred left early,

For most, that seems absurd,

To rise before the cockcrows,

They are the “early bird”.

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Our bus has just been loaded

With luggage, - now with folk,

A headcount done and tallied,

To leave ONE, is no joke.

While John Black was a teacher

Though maths, NOT his forte,

He makes sure no one’s missing,

And keeps us all at bay.

Our ‘Searg-at-arms’ unable

On this trip, to attend,

His ‘second in command’, has done

A job we can commend.

A cloudy day, but thus far,

It’s keeping dry, -  no rain,

For Lester, with the wipers goin’

‘Twould really be a pain.

Our first stop is at Truro

Some need a bladder break,

A stretch of legs, position change,

Does ‘happy people’ make.

Bob B’s  made an announcement,

We had some dropping jaws,

In dollars, 18,000 raised

For all the various cause.

Although we’re feeling humbled

He says, proud, we should be,

Of the achievements we’ve ALL done

By singing endlessly.

And that amount will increase,

For we will sing again,

To help raise, yet more needed funds,

This group of choral men.

And don’t forget our ‘ladies’

Th’energy they exhaust,

Our Nat. and Sheila ’ccompan’ing,

Without them, we’d be lost.

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We’ve had our ‘leg-stretch’, changed posit.

And feeling quite renewed,

We’re fed and bus-ward have returned

As we had all been cued.

Now Halifax is beckoning

A two night stay ’twill be,

To help raise yet MORE dollars

For those, in need, we see.

At hotel we have landed

And if I know folk well,

Then many will be water bound,

It’s ‘Chocolate Lake Hotel’

“So settle in and get refreshed

At ‘four’, in lobby meet

Then venture o’er to Dartmouth

Prepared to hit the ’beat’ “