- A lorry on a motorway
- Had an accident one day
- Shed and spilled its heavy load
- Of concrete by the busy road
- Police in their thoughtfulness
- Instead of clearing up the mess
- Put a ring road round the site
- Made sure it was lit at night
- Planners, developers, architects
- Came from Surrey and Middlesex
- Took cash grants from the government
- Make sure it was wisely spent
- Firms got incentives and cash
- To move to the site of the motorway crash
- Some of them didn't quite get the joke
- And so it turned into Basingstoke
- I don't want to go to Basingstoke
- Don't take me to Basingstoke
- The driver got an MBE
- Appeared on the BBC
- Told them of his tale of woe
- Of how he had nowhere to go
- The DC said that they could give
- A delectable place to live
- Easy links by road and rail
- With us you will never fail
- But I don't want to go to Eastrop Park
- Because I don't want to get mugged in the dark
- I don't want to be led to believe
- How easy it is to leave
- Where the cars are belching effluent
- The alleyways stink of excrement
- There's so much smoke it makes me choke
- I don't want to go to Basingstoke
- I don't want to go to Basingstoke
- Don't take me to Basingstoke