I found this on Spotify. Unfortunately a few words or phrases were unintelligible to me. (This is my transcription.)

EDWARD SAYER'S BRASS BAND
As sung by Richard Digance on "Working Class Millionaire: The Transatlantic Anthology" (1974) and "The Best of The Transatlantic Years" (1975)

1. Mister Edward Sayers was brought up in Lancashire.
His father was a miller by trade and a lover of Lancashire beer.
But Edward was a musician at heart, not knowing where to start,
And that was the rise and fall of Mister Sayers' broken heart.

CHORUS: He wanted to play in the town brass band but the council took down the bandstand.
Not many noticed the leveled-out land or the final bow of the brass band.

2. Every Tuesday after work he'd walk to rehearsal hall.
He'd clean ... his very best ... a special night after all.
They'd walk the halls ... milit'ry balls with leader Jeffrey Brown,
And when they rehearsed for many's the day they'd march around the town.

3. Membership fell from thirty to ten reliables close at hand,
And that ... too late when two joined a rock-and-roll band.
Their uniforms became ragged and torn; their dying days descended.
One pair of feet walked the silent streets as Edward's dream had ended.

4. His trumpet rests in a cared-for grave on a shelf beside the door
With a photograph of his mother and dad taken before the war.
Edward stares into the night; his face is filled with sorrow,
And he's thinking of joining a brand-band; he's seeing someone tomorrow.