Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2008 9:59:28 GMT
Happy Birthday to you…..
Happy Birthday to you…..
To write the history of speedway
In five minutes
You cannot do it
And there is no reason for it
Instead we wish you
A Happy Birthday
There is no need
To collect all those memories
From ancient moments gone
From far beyond when
Most of us can remember
And bind them in a book
To wish you a Happy Birthday
There is no need
To assemble all those ghosts
For we will always
Remember most of them
On this speedway Happy Birthday
Riders standing at the tapes
The starting marshal walks away
Each one of us recalls a moment
On a day we never forgot
A moment of triumph
A moment of disaster
In this our sport of Speedway
All of those racers have our respect
And all of them
Members of this our Speedway
We wish you Happy Birthday
Some of their names
We don’t remember
Some of them fell by the wayside
Some of them got up to ride again
Some of them – rest in peace
In a moment of silence eternal
The smell of the methanol
The smell of this Speedway
Happy Birthday
Takes us there in a moment
To each of those memories
And to each our own
Speedway history
And in the dust of those mysteries
Lay the questions always asked
And we ask them once again
On this Speedway Happy Birthday
Why was that decision made
Who is organising this business
While those on the outside ask
Is it really true
That to compete in Speedway
You have just got to be crazy
Ah, but they don’t know us at all
This is a special Speedway family
At a special family gathering
To wish this our Speedway
Happy Birthday
The party is open to all comers
We are all protective of each other
Even though sometimes
You might not think so
The way we argue among
One another
We sit in large stadiums
We stand at run down circuits
Surrounded by supporters
We don’t know most of them
But we are all at one with our Speedway
And we sing together in the chorus
We wish you a Happy Birthday
Each one of us, have our era
We believe was better
Than every other
There have always been changes
Even though this our Speedway
Happy Birthday
Has always seemed as if
It has stood still
And everyone says
It is not the same as it was before
But we have gathered here all the same
To celebrate your
Eightieth happy birthday
The machinery is different
The tapes remain the same
The engines are laid down now
The riders always turned left
At every turn of the bend
People have said
This sport is coming to an end
It has always lived on
The revival was unexpected
Happy Birthday
There are those who wish
To take our Speedway
To places never seen before
Some of us don’t want to go there anymore
And every time we speak of yesterday
The sound is like a dinosaur’s roar
Happy Birthday
Even now
As we wonder where
They future will take our sport
One door closes
Another door opens
It is eighty years since
The first wheel turned
Eighty years since
The first groove was burned
Into a track
And they called it
Speedway
Was it worth it
Of course it was
Happy Birthday
We can look back
We can look forward
We cannot stay where we are
We want to know
Where we are going next
As we sing this birthday song
Many happy returns
Who is conducting the orchestra
While we look back to yesterday
Who is taking care of tomorrow
We wish you a Happy Birthday
There is no reason
To write a History of Speedway
There is no reason
To revisit memory
To see those shadows
Roar around High Beech
When all we wish to say is
Happy Birthday
No reason to say anything
But Happy Birthday
We look to the future
We might sail upon
A turbulent sea at the moment
But we will be there still
On that hundred birthday morning
For even if this sport should fall down
Of its own accord
There will be those who say
Speedway is finally dead
But like the Phoenix
Rising from the ashes
It will be reborn
Once gain we will say
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday to you…..
Happy Birthday to you…..