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Song of a road : a radio-ballad about the building of the M1 motorway / by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: TSCD 802 | Topic RecordsPublication details: Topic Records, 1999.Description: 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. We usually finish the shift in the pub -- 3. I think its the soil -- 4. We are the consulting engineers -- 5. We were in a great rush when we did this -- 6. My name is -- 7. During that time, a survey has been made -- 8. It would take quite a lot of men to do the job of one of those machines -- 9. Come all you gallant drivers -- 10. I'm a roving rambler -- 11. Deep and straight and low -- 12. Sixty tons of steel -- 13. What made you come into this game? -- 14. Just a road -- 15. Oh well that's just the way it is -- 16. When the muck has all been shifted -- 17. Bring up your black squad -- 18. Been on the road so long -- 19. You can talk about your concrete -- 20. The motorway is on the final lap -- 21. We needed a way cut through the land.
Holdings
Item type Home library Shelving location Class number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode
Sound Recordings Sound Recordings VWML Storage SCD 371 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Reference only SR01054

Compact disc.

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service, 5/11/1959; produced by Charles Parker.

Musical instruments: concertina, trumpet, ocarina, clarinet, uileann pipes, trombone; bass, guitar, banjo, autoharp; drums.

1. Introduction -- 2. We usually finish the shift in the pub -- 3. I think its the soil -- 4. We are the consulting engineers -- 5. We were in a great rush when we did this -- 6. My name is -- 7. During that time, a survey has been made -- 8. It would take quite a lot of men to do the job of one of those machines -- 9. Come all you gallant drivers -- 10. I'm a roving rambler -- 11. Deep and straight and low -- 12. Sixty tons of steel -- 13. What made you come into this game? -- 14. Just a road -- 15. Oh well that's just the way it is -- 16. When the muck has all been shifted -- 17. Bring up your black squad -- 18. Been on the road so long -- 19. You can talk about your concrete -- 20. The motorway is on the final lap -- 21. We needed a way cut through the land.

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