The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Blue Passport

Blue passport, blue passport, just makes you think,

How long we've endured our passports of pink,

(But aren’t they really a burgundy-red?)

Forced upon us by a faceless EU,

Insisted we changed to red from our blue,

(But that was not what they actually said.)

Our British heritage, blue to the last,

Part of our history, and our great past,

(But only since the year nineteen twenty.)

Passport of blue, that’s the colour for me,

Part of our national Identity,

(Just like our social inequality.)

Chris Raven

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