The North South divide
Living in Hampstead is all very well
But nothing compares to Camberwell.
Less green, less trendy, and much less pretty
More mean streets and much more gritty.
It's all well and good to big up the North
With its tubes and its hills and Arsenal support.
But where it its street life, the gab and the chatter?
Where are the pies and the eels and the liqueur?
Sure, in both places "characters" bound
But differences they are most truly profound
Hampstead is clean, green and not rough
It has its own heath, its own pools and such stuff.
Posh cars and posh houses there can be found.
But what of the street banter and cool jokes as well
Can tired old H compare with Camberwell?
The streets they are grimey, with rubbish they're strewn
And strolling down there is OK at high noon
But once it gets dark the yout's they appear
Laughing and jesting with ganga and beer.