For Past Three Hundred Years

From almost right away, in 1628

Our forefathers at that early date

Recognized an importance of the early Indian Bridge

People say it occupied an area near the Careenage

An expedition led by Charles Wolverston, arrived on the bay

Soon named Carlisle Bay after the Earl of Carlisle, James Hay

The settlers enacted a boundaries Act in 1660

To assigned surrounding acres to merchants of the Mother Country

Had bad weather, storms and hurricanes

Ruining the town with their winds and rains

Every merchant from London had it rough

Each needed to survive the Bridgetown weather and even more tough

Health conditions were at the worse, described LIGON

Unsanitary area which was surveyed by John Swan

Notwithstanding it all Bridgetown became a city

Defying the tragedies of Mother Nature’s fury

Repeatedly devastated later by gutting fires

Early streets named since 1657 are still survivors

Didn’t change much over the years they remain the same

You got Reed, Swan, James, Tudor, Palmetto and High Streets as named

Even Whites Alley was there long before you and me

All these made up the original Bridgetown City

Reconstruction of the streets and beautification of the Piers  

Still in many ways we are the same For Past Three Hundred Years