Of course, and ideal opportunity to re-post a Max boyce song:

SLOW - MEN AT WORK
Max Boyce
ttto: So early in the morning

There is a band of loyal men
Who come in their lorries but they don't say when.
What they do, well I just can't say –
They're either coming or they're going away.

    Chorus:
    And they keep their billy-cans brewing,
    They keep their billy-cans brewing,
    They keep their billy-cans brewing
    And they brew a little more each day!

But it's a dangerous job both cruel and hard;
They risk their lives when the floods are bad.
One drowned last week whilst clutching his spade;
He slipped and he fell in the tea he'd made!

Have you seen them working on the road,
Sweating and toiling with a heavy load?
Seen them working with no thought of tea?
Well if you have you don't live by me!

They say that Rome wasn't built in a day,
And there was one big long delay.
The reason was and it's a fact,
The council had the main contract!


Copied from "Max Boyce: his Songs & Poems"
Published by Panther Books (1976) 586 04621 6