“Bus driver, bus driver, the sirens have gone,
The bombs may come down, but the buses go on;
Bus driver, I know you won't think me a snob
If I whisper: "Bus driver, I don't want your job."”

"Seeing It Through", London Transport poster by Eric Kennington (1944).

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