TY - SOUND AU - MacColl,Ewan AU - Parker,Charles AU - Seeger, Peggy TI - Song of a road: a radio-ballad about the building of the M1 motorway PY - 1999/// PB - Topic Records N1 - 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 ER -