The Motorway Song - The Black Family

[03:30.0]They're going to build a motorway
[03:30.0]Through me back garden
[03:30.0]No one can explain why I came to be chosen
[03:30.0]They're going to build a motorway
[03:30.0]They're ripping up the trees
[03:30.0]Soon the lorries will be zooming through
[03:30.0]Me cabbages and peas
[03:30.0]The brother lives in Lilac Grove
[03:30.0]It's just across the street
[03:30.0]I've not seen him for weeks
[03:30.0]We always used to meet
[03:30.0]And have a pint or two at Paddy Lowes
[03:30.0]It's just a heap of rubble now
[03:30.0]The pawn shop's disappeared
[03:30.0]And so's the barbers where we always used to go
[03:30.0]Well I dunno
[03:30.0]These noisey great machines are workin' nonstop
[03:30.0]And funny things are growin'
[03:30.0]And it looks as though the bomb's dropped
[03:30.0]The bulldozers are closin' in now
[03:30.0]On me back garden
[03:30.0]No one can explain why I came to be chosen
[03:30.0]The bulldozers are closin' in
[03:30.0]They've ripped up all the trees
[03:30.0]Soon the lorries will be zooming through
[03:30.0]My cabbages and peas
[03:30.0]I don't go out much any more
[03:30.0]Can't find me way around
[03:30.0]Wind nearly knocks me down
[03:30.0]There's tunnels underground
[03:30.0]An' just to get about from place to place
[03:30.0]Is like a bleedin' steeplechase
[03:30.0]Day an' night the traffic flows
[03:30.0]It's best to plug your ears and hold your nose
[03:30.0]Well, I suppose
[03:30.0]I'm better off than some,
[03:30.0]don't think I'm just sour
[03:30.0]I'm grateful for the grandstand view I'm getting
[03:30.0]Of the rush hour
[03:30.0]They've built and eight lane motorway
[03:30.0]Through me back garden
[03:30.0]No one can explain
[03:30.0]Why I came to be chosen
[03:30.0]They've built an eight lane motorway
[03:30.0]They've ripped up all the trees
[03:30.0]now the lorries zoom where once I grew
[03:30.0]Me cabbages and peas