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The Cambridge Navvies - Part 2 12.09.2017 2:21 ↓

The Cambridge Navvies with lyrics and melody by Patrick Olsen, Chorus and Harmonies and Score by Bethany Kirby VERSE ONE The Navvies were men who made the canals, For twelve hours a day they’d sweat with their pals, Movin’ twenty tonnes of earth in a barrow up a plank, And leavin’ it all at the top of the bank. VERSE TWO The navvies were men who laid the train tracks, Cutting through hills with a...

The Cambridge Navvies - Part 1 15.08.2017 2:14 ↓

The Cambridge Navvies with lyrics and melody by Patrick Olsen, Chorus and Harmonies and Score by Bethany Kirby VERSE ONE The Navvies were men who made the canals, For twelve hours a day they’d sweat with their pals, Movin’ twenty tonnes of earth in a barrow up a plank, And leavin’ it all at the top of the bank. VERSE TWO The navvies were men who laid the train tracks, Cutting through hills with a...

Hand on the Bridge 04.08.2017 0:42 ↓

Michael Rosen's Hand On the Bridge adapted for song by Bethany Kirby Hand on the bridge, Feel the rhythm of the train. Hand on the window Feel the rhythm of the rain. Hand on your throat Feel the rhythm of your talk Hand on your leg Feel the rhythm of your walk Hand in the sea Feel the rhythm of the tide Hand on your heart Feel the rhythm inside Hand on the rhythm Feel the rhythm of the rhyme Hand...

Mill Road Railway Workers Song 04.08.2017 1:27 ↓

LYRICS by CBBC's Horrible Histories song-writer, Dave Cohen with some script input from Historyworks, sung here by Bethany Kirby: As I was riding from Cambridge by train All along down along, out along lea I saw all the people who worked to maintain Two fitters one shunter, stone breaker, boiler maker One railway examiner and all Five drivers all stood by the wall As I was travelling in my Cambrid...

Great Eastern Railway Excursions 04.08.2017 1:51 ↓

Michael Rosen's Cambridge Railway Excursions Poem adapted to song by Bethany Kirby Chorus 1: The DAY exCURSion to LONdon and BACK Chorus 2: The day excursion to London and back Chorus 1: FOResters FETE at the CRYstal PALace Chorus 2: Foresters Fete at the Crystal Palace Chorus 1: Oo-oo-woo [a mix of delight and the whistle of an engine] Chorus 2: Psssshhhhhtttt [a mix of breathing out and the soun...

I Have a Song To Sing 27.07.2017 0:18 ↓

LYRICS 1: I have a song to sing 2: Come, let the music ring 3: I can do anything 4: I have a song, what can go wrong 5: I have a song to get me along

This Old Freedom Train 27.07.2017 0:34 ↓

LYRICS 1: This old freedom train has been a long time coming 2: Ain’t nobody can’t afford it, so you’d better jump on board it 3: Gimme that freedom, gimme that freedom 4: Gimme that freedom, freedom, freedom (chk-a-chk), freedom, freedom, freedom (chk-a-chk)

Early In The Morning 27.07.2017 0:31 ↓

LYRICS 1: Early in the morning, when I wake up, early in the morning when I wake up 2: I brush my teeth, I eat my bread, I drink my coffee and go back to bed 3: Early in the morning 4: Early in the morning