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Lyrics for Salvation Band by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Salvation Band | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 147 | | | | Lyrics: | SALVATION BAND
(G) C - / C G7 / F C / C G C
When I was just a little
kid
On a Sunday morning early
Salvation band come down our street
To make their
hurly-burly
Well they all stood around in a great big ring
And they started blowing
cornets
And all the kids from miles around
Come a-swarming round like hornets
Salvation band with a big trombone
And the music fair goes through you
With
their Onward Christian Soldiers
And their Glory Hallelujahs.
There were scores
and scores and scores of kids,
Perhaps there were even thirty
And goodness knows who owned
them all
But they all looked filthy dirty
There were Jackson's kid from across the
street
And he were a right young villain
When collection box come around to him
He
made off with fifteen shillings.
CHORUS
Now man, as stood and waved a big
stick
Looked tall as half the houses
He'd got a grand new uniform
With gold braid
down his trousers
Behind him ran little Tommy Jones
With his young grey pup called
Dusty
And pup must have thought that man was a tree
'Cause gold braid's gone all
rusty
CHORUS
Now rest didn't think band was up to much,
But me, I
didn't mind 'em
So when they marched off down the street,
I marched off right behind
'em
Well they marched up t'other side of town,
Streets I'd never been in
And
they ended in the back of a public house,
As my dada said I couldn't be seen in
CHORUS
When policemen fetched me home that night
They'd had their dinner without
me
And when my dad found out where I'd been
I knew for a fact he'd clout me
Well I
got buckle end of my dad's pit-strap
And that were plenty for me
I've never followed that
band again,
And that's the end of me story.
-
By Roger Watson, author of many
first-rate songs about goings-on
in his native Derbyshire. This was one of his
earliest.
Recorded by John Roberts and Tony Barrand on "Mellow with Ale
from the
Horn", FHR-04
@drink @religion
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