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HANDLOOM V. POWERLOOM
For our cotton masters have a wonderful new scheme:
These calico goods now wove by hand, they're going to weave by steam.

THE WEAVER AND THE FACTORY MAID
Where are the girls, I will tell you plain:
The girls have all gone to weave by steam,

KING COTTON (Mike Harding)
See how the lint flies out over the moorland,
See how the smoke to the valley clings,
See how the slate roofs shine in the drizzle,
This is the valley where Cotton is King.

THE SHERAT WEAVER
Ee dear, if yon Yankees could only but see
How they're clemming and starving poor weavers like me
I think they'd soon settle their battles and strife
And send us some cotton to keep us alive.

THE OXFORD AND HAMPTON RAILWAY
Ri-fan, Ti-fan, mirth and fun, Don't you wonder how it's done?
Carriages without horses run, On the Oxford and 'Ampton Railway.

PADDY WORKS ON THE RAILWAY (1)
In eighteen hundred and forty one, I put my corduroy breeches on
I put my cordury breeches on, to work upon the railway.

WHEN THIS OLD HAT WAS NEW
But now long journeys are so short, they seem but as a dream,
For they travel in hot water, and they melt long miles by steam.

ROLL ON COLUMBIA (Woody Guthrie)
Roll on, Columbia, roll on,
Roll on, Columbia, roll on
Your power is turning our darkness to dawn,
So roll on, Columbia, roll on

TELFORD'S BRIDGE (John Warner (c) 1994)
The aqueduct's channel is seven feet wide,
With a stout iron rail on the broad towpath side;

GOODBYE TO THE THIRTY FOOT TRAILER (Ewan MacColl)
The old ways are changing you cannot deny
The day of the traveler's over
There's nowhere to gang and there's nowhere to bide
So farewell to the life of the rover

Goodbye to the tent and the old caravan
To the tinker, the rover, the travelling man
And goodbye tae the thirty foot trailer