Words of Interest

Number 16.

The Busman's Prayer

A version of the Lord's Prayer

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Our Father, Who art in Hendon
Harrow Road be Thy name
Thy Kingston come
Thy Wimbledon
In Erith as it is in Hendon.
Give us this day our Berkhampstead
And forgive us our Westminsters
As we forgive those who Westminster against us.
Lead us not into Temple Station
And deliver us from Ealing,
For thine is the Kingston
The Purley and the Crawley,
For Iver and Esher,
Crouch End.

Or

Our Farnham, who art in Hendon
Harrow be Thy name
Thy Kingston come
Thy Wimbledon
In Erith as it is in Heston.
Give us this day our Leatherhead
And forgive us our Bypasses
As we forgive those who Bypass against us.
Lead us not into Thames Ditton
But deliver us from Ewell,
For Thine is the Kingston
The Pinner and the Crawley,
For Esher and Esher,
Crouch End.

Or

Our buses which art in the depot,
Hallowed be thy tyres.
Thy service operate, or thy will be done,
In Chiselhurst as in Hendon,
Give us this day our hourly buses,
And forgive us for not buying our bus tickets,
As we forgive those that smoke on the lower deck,
And lead the bus not in the wrong direction,
But deliver us on time,
For London Transport has the monopoly,
The power and the Glory,
Until the wretched bus breaks down again.

Or

Derbyshire Busman's Prayer

Our father who art in Hatton.
Horsley be thy name,
Thy Kilburn come.
Thy Willington, in Elvaston as in Hatton,
Give us this day our Dalbury Lees,
And forgive us our Chesterfields,
As we forgive those who Chesterfield against us,
And lead us not into Trent Station, But deliver us from Eastwood,
For thine is the Kingsway,
For Etwall and Edale,
West End.

Or

Scots Version

Oor Faither, Wishaw in New Haven,
Alloa be yer name,
Yer Kinghorn come;
Yer will be Rum
In Perth as it is in Leven.
Gie us th' day oor daily Breich
And forgive us oor Faslanes
As we forgive those who Faslane against us.
And lead us no into tenaments
But deliver us from Elgin
For thine is the Kingussie,
the Portree and the Orkney.
For ever and ever, Bearsden.

 

Or

A Kent version 

Our father who art in Hever
Allhallows be thy name,
Thy Kinqsdown come
Thy Willesborough be done on Edenbridge
As it is in Headcorn,
Give us this day our Danton Pinch
And forgive us our Pett Bottom
As we forgive those who Twydall against us,
And lead us not into Thannington Without,
But deliver us from Plucks Gutter
For thine is the Kilndown
The Peckham and the Greatstone
For Ebbsfleet and Eccles,
Gravesend.

Or

Computer User's Keyboard Player.

Our Program, who art in Memory,
Hello be thy Name.
Thy Operating System come,
Thy Commands be done, At the Printer as it is on the Screen.
Give us this day our daily Data,
And forgive us our 1/0 Errors
As we forgive those whose Logic Circuits are faulty
And lead us not into frustration,
And deliver us from Power Surges.
For Thine is the Algorithm,
The Application and the Solution,
Looping forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever
And ever and ever and ever and ever.
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