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Thread #72771   Message #1256238
Posted By: Catflap
25-Aug-04 - 09:35 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Songs about Beeching's Cuts
Subject: Half Forgotten Lyrics:- Beechings Cuts
There is - or was - a song popular in some Glasgow clubs in the 1960's, to the tune of Bonnie Lass of Fyvie, that started

Efter forty five was over and done, Geordie said to Wade, Man [alive oh?], away wi pick and spade and make for me a road, a road running a' the way frae Fyvie-o.

Wade of course went off to make the road, and the song went on in similar fashion until Dr Beeching came on the scene. Unfortunately the last time I heard it would have been close to forty years ago. More unfortunately, those first few lines keep going round and round, in the infuriating way they do. Any help out there?