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Trade's End
04:35
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Cocoa and dates, bottled beer stacked in crates
Damn all the Waterways Board
Coal by the ton for the old ironworks run
Damn all the Waterways Board
Drop all the paddles, fling wide the gates
Damn all the Waterways Board
There's a cargo to ship and it mustn't be late
Damn all the Waterways Board
Chorus:
Damn'em to hell
Sound out their death knell
For we all can see trouble descending
Hang'em up high
Let the crows peck their eyes
Damn'em to hell, the trade's ending
The bottom's too close to the top we all say
Damn all the Waterways Board
The pound's full of shite and we scour it away
Damn all the Waterways Board
We ne'er got paid proper for our work in the war
Damn all the Waterways Board
Rations, low wages, still we are poor
Damn all the Waterways Board
The trade will be o'er, and the boats will be gone
Damn all the Waterways Board
And now in their place stinking lorries have come
Damn all the Waterways Board
Now the nossers and jossers and noddy boats cruise
Damn all the Waterways Board
They rev and they ram, and they're tanked up with booze
Damn all the Waterways Board
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1312 Overture
03:44
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Cropper Lads
03:16
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Come Cropper lads of high reknown
Who like to drink strong ale that's brown
And strike each haughty tyrant down
With hatchet, pike and gun.
Chorus:
Oh the Cropper lads for me
And gallant lads they be
With lusty stroke, the shear-frames broke
The Cropper lads for me
What though the Specials still advance
And soldiers nightly round us prance
The Cropper lads stil lead the dance
With hatchet, pike and gun
And night by night, when all is still
And the moon is hid behind the hill
We forward march to do our will
With hatchet, pike and gun
Great Enoch still shall lead the van
Stop him who dares, stop him who can
Press forward every gallant man
With hatchet, pike and gun
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Longa Farahfaza
03:45
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Let Union Be
03:43
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Come my lads, now let's be jolly
Drive away dull melancholy
For to grieve it is such folly
When we're met together
Chorus:
Let union be in all our hearts
And let our hearts be joined as one
We'll end the day as we've begun
We'll end it all in pleasure
Rai folla rollarolla tooralaro
Rai folla rollarolla tooralaro
Rai folla rollarolla tooralaro
When we're met together
Grab the bottle as it passes
Do not fail to fill your glasses
Water drinkers are dull arses
When we're met together
Kings of old in all their glory
Told their wives a different story
In our cups we'll sing their glory
When we're met together
Eating and drinking, they're so charming
Dancing and piping. there's no harm in
All these things take great delight in
When we're met together
Cease from quarelling and fighting
Evil speaking and backbiting
None of these things take delight in
When we're met together
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Beer, Bread and Butter
03:23
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7. |
Skip Song / Bin Skankin
04:13
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Well, we are a ran-tan crew of folk
Who like to get around
Well we've played out in the country
And we've busked it in the towns
Well we like to drink our cider
But what really makes us grin
Is rolling up our muddy sleeves
And going through your bins
Chorus:
Yes going through your bins my friends,
We're going through your bins
The useful tat that you throw out
It really is a sin
Recycle or reuse my friends
No secret to success
No need to ask, it's our life's task
To rummage through your mess
And we all once went to do the skips
Twas at this time of year
Oh so much food, the choicest wine
Crates of the finest beer
So much in such abundance
Oh I truly could not speak
The banquet ran for seven days, the party seven weeks
And I built myself a mansion from old bottles and old bricks
And I furnished it in finest style
With stuff I found in skips
It was so swish, so hip, so now
Urbane and debonair
That I swapped it for a pile of cash
Now I'm a billionaire
And it's naked greed and profit
Drives consumption ever higher
If you're feeling cold and empty
Put the world on to your fire, FYAH!
Well I started out with nothing
Now I'm expert in my field
And I can forage through a city
Harvest all that will yield
Where once we scraped as paupers
We all celebrate as kings
It's all from going round the back and going through your bins
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Megalith Steppa
03:35
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Whistling Treason Bristol, UK
Dubplate-folk, Soundsystem Trad, Acoustic or Valve Powered, Global Confusion. Whatever I feel
like.
As guitarist with RSVP Bhangra and Malarchy, I've played countless major festivals across Britain and Europe, including Glastonbury & Womad.
What started out as a strictly folk project has expanded wildly, to incorporate tunes from around the world, original compositions, and a whole lot of dub.
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