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Carrying the Coffin
The Young'uns
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Carrying the coffin all the way to London town
Carrying the coffin all the way to London town
Carrying the coffin all the way to London town
And we will work once more
In our coffin is a man who went to war
He came back a hero, boys, beaten, broken, sore
He pawned all his medals because he was so poor
And he can't work no more
We're carrying the coffin all the way to London town
We're carrying the coffin all the way to London town
Carrying the coffin all the way to London town
And we will work once more
From the Clyde and the Tyne and the Tees we have come
From the Mersey and the Severn and the Yare and Taff and Don
Our rivers may be weeping, lads, but we are marching on
And we will work once more
Carrying the coffin all the way to London town
We're carrying the coffin all the way to London town
Carrying the coffin all the way to London town
And we will work once more
A land fit for coffins is what they should have said
'Cause if we can't have work enough we might as well be dead
But while we've still got breath in us we'll sing instead
We will work once more
We're carrying the coffin all the way to London town
We're carrying the coffin all the way to London town
Carrying the coffin all the way to London town
And we will work once more
We'll carry our coffins all along Whitehall
And when we are fit to drop, well, into them we'll fall
And Mr. MacDonald, he can bury us all
If we can't work no more
We're carrying the coffin all the way to London town
We're carrying the coffin all the way to London town
Carrying the coffin all the way to London town
And we will work once more
The ground is gaping and me legs they feel like lead
The gravestones are grinning and the mourners are well fed
So bring out your jobs or bring out your dead
We will work once more
We will work once more
We will work once more
I got a job fixing up machinery in a laundry, the Anglo-
American Laundry. Well, I'd been in this hostel around
About four or five months at this stage, and the hostel
Warden had gone. A new man had come in with a new cook
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