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Star Sound (Navvy's Song)

from Thuggery / Pain by Robert Heart

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"In the early 1880's, large groups of mainly unskilled labourers build England's railways. The work was back breaking, low paid and often very dangerous, and the cost in human terms was often very high."

Digging a hole
And laying the track
For a train
For a train

The big big train
Makes a choo-choo sound
On the tracks
On the tracks

I'm working hard
At digging this hole
For a train
For a train

The big big train
With the choo-choo sound
On the tracks
On the tracks

The sun beats down
On my back back back
It's not cold
It's not cold

Except when it rains
And I feel all wet
Then it's cold
Then it's cold

We're laying the track
For the choo-choo train
In the sun
And in the rain

That big iron box
Which runs on the tracks
It goes fast,
Flies right past

My back hurts hurts
But I've got toned glutes
And large guns
And nice abs

But I've got no shoes
And I live in a slum
It's oh so cold
And my friend died

Come on!

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from Thuggery / Pain, released November 13, 2021

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