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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.

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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