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It's Dirty, It's Dusty

from Waiting For The Word by Kevin Adams

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The great railway works at Wolverton, North Buckinghamshire. Vulnerable, like all single industry towns, when the main employer hits the buffers,

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It’s Dirty It’s Dusty
Words & music: Paul Clark

It’s dirty, it’s dusty, it’s noisy,
It sure gets you down now and then
But when we leave from here
In two months, or a year,
We’ll never be craftsmen again

The Wolverton Works they are closing
It’s part of a Government ploy
It seems they don’t care for the carriage repairs
That I’ve worked on since I was a boy.

I came at fourteen as apprentice
Like my Dad and my Uncle before
And I’ve got all my skill and I love my job still
But I’m certain they’ll show me the door

The word they have for it is progress
Replacing the old with the new
With some software you see they’ll eliminate me
And all that I’m able to do

From the stink and the noise of the foundry
To a silent old house on my own
And it isn’t just me, it’s the whole town, you see
It’s the finish of all we have known.

It’s dirty, it’s dusty, it’s noisy,
It sure gets you down now and then
But when we leave from here
In two months, or a year,
We’ll never be craftsmen again.

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from Waiting For The Word, released June 23, 2006
words & music Paul Clark
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Blending traditional folk music with a love of other genres- classical, jazz, folk-rock, prog-rock, pop… music, music, music…

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