The Ballad of the ALARMING Digger Robbers

Once upon a winter morning
A big digger did drive down
From the place where it was stolen
To the centre of the town;
It was drove by desperados
With designs to break the law…
It was dark and it was chilly
And the hour- almost four.
The hydraulics activated
And they lifted up the spade
And the digger excavated
Half the Nat-West bank's façade!
Ant it carved right out the cash-machine
As bricks around it rained,
Then the robbers quickly fled the scene
With the loot they had gained.

And when dawn came all this heinous crime
Was more than testified
To by the big abandoned digger
And the great hole gaping wide.
And throughout the sleepy village
There arose the alarmed shout
There's a big hole in the high street
With a digger sticking out!

Will they catch these shocking felons
And recover what they stole?
And will Risborough now be noted
For the mint lost from the hole?