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Lyr Req: My little son / Britain's Motorways

30 Mar 09 - 07:03 PM (#2600825)
Subject: Lyr Req: My little son /Luke Kelly
From: skarpi

I just heard this song , does some one know or have the lyric ?

kv Skarpi


30 Mar 09 - 07:11 PM (#2600827)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My little son /Luke Kelly
From: GUEST,DonMeixner

Hi Skarpi, is this it?

Come[C] my little[F] son and I will tell you what to[C] do,
Undress yourself,get[F] into bed and a[C] tale I'll tell to[Am] you
Its[C] all about your[F] daddy he's a[C] man you seldom [Am]see,
For he's[C] had to roam[F] away from home,away from[C] me and you.
[Chorus]
But remember lad he's still your dad,
Though he's working far away,
In the cold and heath eighty hours a week,
On England's motorway.
[2]
Sure we'd like your daddy home,sure it would be fine,
To have him working nearer home,to see him all the time,
But beggers cant be choosers son,and we have to bear our load,
For we need the money your daddy earns,
A working on the roads.
[3]
When you fall and hurt yourself and get a feeling bad,
It isn't any good to go a-running for your da,
For the only time since you were born,that he had to spend with you,
He was out of a job and he had'nt a bob,he was signing on the brew,
[Chorus]


30 Mar 09 - 11:01 PM (#2600936)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My little son /Luke Kelly
From: Effsee

Written by Ewan MacColl, for the Radio Ballad, "The Song of the Road"(?)


31 Mar 09 - 06:31 AM (#2601096)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My little son /Luke Kelly
From: Brakn

It's in the DT...............

Britain's Motorways


31 Mar 09 - 04:07 PM (#2601561)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My little son /Luke Kelly
From: Big Phil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fDNhqzqHkA


31 Mar 09 - 05:13 PM (#2601630)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My little son /Luke Kelly
From: skarpi

yes this is the one , thanks :Þ

kv Skarpi


14 Apr 09 - 01:15 PM (#2611080)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My little son /Luke Kelly
From: GUEST

it's "in the cold and HEAT OF THE HOURS OF THE WEEK", not the above.


14 Apr 09 - 02:30 PM (#2611125)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My little son /Luke Kelly
From: Jim Carroll

MacColl actually wrote
"In the cold and the heat, eighty hours a week"; which makes far more sense than above.
Don't know what Luke sang.
Jim Carroll


14 Apr 09 - 05:17 PM (#2611237)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My little son /Luke Kelly
From: GUEST,brakn in Florida!

Luke did get it wrong but that's the version taht most people sing these days.