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What’s wrong with the sausage the burger or chop – come on don’t just sit on the fence
If we are what we eat then we ought to eat meat to me that just makes perfect sense
But now we are told if we want to get old we’d better not lozak or laze
We must all take the pledge and just eat fruit and veg and renounce our carnivorous ways
Chorus
Five a day five a day
The wholesomest … Continue reading
Bringing Home The Bacon by Dave Boulton
Words by Dave Boulton, music by Dave Boulton & Jeff Parton
Well the land is all pleasant and the fields are all green
And to tell you the truth it all seems like a dream
For we’ve lived in the darkness, but fifty years on
The darkness and dirt and the Black Hill are gone
CHORUS:
And it seems like a shadow has gone from my eyes
That I hadn’t noticed for most of my life
For the sun’s shining in through the windows and doors
Of Chain Row and Fan … Continue reading
Words by Dave Boulton May09
Key F Maj
Well my name’s Arthur Draycott and I live near Trubshaw cross
In the same old house I lived in as a nipper
And when there was work around well I worked in Burslem town
For the most part down at Doulton’s as a dipper
.Now me mother she had babies like other folks have shoes
I mean in pairs not sling-backs or galoshes
And our old two up two down was back-to-back and tumble down
So you’ll guess the life we lived was not the posh-est
First up best dressed’s the motto and give thanks … Continue reading
Bringing Home The Bacon by Dave Boulton
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Walk around your town and you’ll be shocked at what they’ve done
They’ve knocked down all the terraces and put up brand new slums.
With wood-look doors and wood-look floors, with plastic and with steel
It’s a pity that the people left to live in them are real
Walk around your town and you’ll be shocked at what they’ve done
They’ve knocked down all the terraces and put up brand new slums.
With wood-look doors and wood-look floors, with plastic and with steel
It’s a pity … Continue reading
Words: Dave Boulton Music: Jeff Parton
Brian Berrington – a fine songwriter from Stoke during the 60’s&70’s wrote a charming little song called Boslem Wakes. It’s about 4 stoke lads – Willie Clough and Jim McGough and ‘arry Lowns and “Me.” going to Blackpool on a day trip. The trip culminates with one of the lads being involved in an impromptu “romantic entanglement” and missing his coach home. The song is written in “Stokinese” but it is easily understood and not a word is wasted. It is a beautiful, knowing, little sketch of the adventures of these 4 Stoke lads. … Continue reading
Bringing Home The Bacon by Dave Boulton
See ‘em everywhere you go, town and country rodeo
Friday nights they’re everywhere you turn
Tattooed shirts and high-heeled shoes, accents that just don’t ring true
Cowboys in all senses of the word
Chorus:
Two sets of words, one worn-out tune
Singin’ in a vexin’ Texan drawl
I can’t stand Barry Manilow or the Tony Blackburn Show
But I hate country music best of all
In every public bar and lounge when they turn the juke box down
You can bet your boots it’s country music night
Everyone is looking bored … Continue reading
By: Dave Boulton
This song never made the cut to appear on a CD. My idea was sort of about cultural identity and how although people are moving around the world for a better life or for safety or whatever they often maintain a touch with their roots. A people’s ancient songs seem to be deeply embedded in their subconcious and culture and maybe help maintain a link back to the past and their origins, their country and the people they left behind and in some way who they really are.
Laugh Or Cry Same Price by Dave Boulton
If your life’s a bowl of toenails and you can’t take any more
Of the endless toil and strife to keep the wolf from round the door
If money is a worry and work a pointless bind
Things might not seem so desperate if you’ll just bear this in mind:
Chorus:
Life can be a trouble and life can be a curse
But taken all round, on the whole, you know things could be worse
And remember when you feel that life’s put too much on your plate
Compared with … Continue reading
Look Back In 'Anley by Dave Boulton
Words by Dave Boulton, music by Jeff Parton
CHORUS:
Come raise your glass and drink to absent friends
As the door behind us closes and another day begins
Think on the ones we’ve loved and lost who’ll never come again
Come raise your glass and drink to absent friends
Here among this company convivial and bright
Almost everyone has someone that they wish were here tonight
If the chair beside you’s empty or the bed beside you’s cold
If there’s arms you long to rest in or a hand you want … Continue reading
