Champion At Keeping Them Rolling
(Ewan McColl)
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I am an old-timer, I travel the road
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I sit in me wagon and lumber me load
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Me hotel is the jungle, a camp me abode
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And I'm well known to Blondie and Mary
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Me liquor is diesel oil laced with strong tea
And the old Highway Code was me first ABC
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And I cut me eye teeth on an old AEC
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And I'm champion at keeping them rolling
I've sat in the cabin and broiled in the sun
Been snowed up on Shap, on the Manchester run
I've crawled through the fog with me twenty-two ton
Of fish that was stinking like blazin'
From London to Glasgow, to the Newcastle quay
From Liverpool, Preston and Bristol city
The pillions on the road give the thumb sign to me
But I'm champion at keeping them rolling
You may sing of your soldiers and sailors so bold
But there's many and many a hero untold
Who sits at the wheel in the heat and the cold
Day after day without sleeping
So watch out for cops and slow down at the bend
Check all your gauges and watch your big end
And zing with your lights when you pass an old friend
You'll be champion at keeping them rolling
So watch out for cops and slow down at the bend
Check all your gauges and watch your big end
And zing with your lights when you pass an old friend
You'll be champion at keeping them rolling
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