Lancaster Is A Hard Road To Travel

 

(Join in and sing this song to the tune “Richmond is a Hard Road To Travel)

Would you like to hear my song? I’m afraid it’s rather long of the famous Purky road trip of trouble
Of my two amazing games, but nobody ever came,
‘Twas the very latest bursting of my bubble.

Tis pretty sad to tell about my trip to War Game Hell

Tis a dreadful knotty puzzle to unravel

Though all war gamers swore, when I touched Lancaster’s door

That Lancaster is a hard road to travel.

(Refrain)

So pack up your figures, roll up game mats

For Lancaster is a hard road to travel,

Then pack up your figures, roll up game mats,

For Lancaster’s a hard road to travel I believe.

First Jim Purky, bold and glad, set forth the shortest way,

By the Penn. Turnpike in the hottest Summer weather,

But unfortunately he ran into a show with other plans

And had a rocky journey all together.

And he found it rather wicked to get war gamers’ tickets

And the registration system proved a bother

And was clear beyond a doubt, his Friday game was cancelled out

And Purky’s Saturday game hopefully wouldn’t falter.

(Refrain)

So pack up your figures, roll up game mats

For Lancaster is a hard road to travel

Then pack up your figures, roll up your mats

For Lancaster’s a hard road to travel I believe.

Next came Saturday with another game to play

Marching to the room called the Commonwealth,

Just three players signed up to play, and the others ran away

And disappointment was so bad for Purky’s health.

(Refrain)

Then Jim Purky had to hope

Some other gamers he could rope

Into the greatest skirmish game in all the nation

By such action he might cope instead of sitting down to mope

And he issued a famous proclamation.

But the HMGS computer, his game it tried to blaster

So the players could not find his wargame table,

So old Jim he joined his game and taught them how to play

And it was his very last appearance in Lancaster.

(Refrain)

So pack up your figures, pack up your car

For Lancaster is a hard road to travel

So pack up your figures, pack up your car

For Lancaster is a hard road to travel, I believe.