A Two Grand Wager
(C.Douglas/B.Ralston)


In the year of 1800, the Bank of England made a move
A workman said they'd blundered and the blunder would be proved
The new gold vault was strong and safe so they offered him 2 grand
No way the Bank of England could be rifled by this man

A Two Grand Wager
Worth more than a million pounds today
A Two Grand Wager
The workman made them pay it all
He made the government eat its hat
And gratefully decree
That the workman was indeed a man
Of deep integrity

Now some admired his honesty but some said what a fool
He just waited patiently surrounded by a pool of nuggets
When the staff arrived he wryly started to explain
He'd entered through a trapdoor from the sewers and the drains

A Two Grand Wager
Worth more than a million pounds today
A Two Grand Wager
The workman made them pay it all
He made the government eat its hat
And gratefully decree
That the workman was indeed a man
Of deep integrity

What an honest man he was
He was honest to a fault
When he could have easily stolen
All the nuggets from the vault

Instrumental break
A Two Grand Wager
Worth more than a million pounds today
A Two Grand Wager
The workman made them pay it all
He made the government eat its hat
And gratefully decree
That the workman was indeed a man
Of deep integrity

Copyright Carol Douglas and Brian Ralston