HIGH PART OF THE TOWN



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Every day we go walking to the high part of the town

Ever since me father went up there and he found half a crown

He said this is easy money, the conditions can't be beat

We've never found a penny more, but it keeps us off the street



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Keep your hands down in your pockets

And your eyes down on the ground

For the streets are lined with silver

In the high part of the town



Our house is not so crowded since me mother ran away

She'd rather live from hand to mouth than to live from day to day

Well me father's often lonely, but its a blessing in disguise

Its cured me mother's worries and its cured me dad's black eyes



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Well a man came from the council for to make me go to school

He asked me lots of questions and he told me lots of rules

They tried to teach geography, but I found it much too hard

When they asked me where does coal come from, I answered "next

door's yard"



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Last Sunday night me father had a bit too much to sup

And he swapped his Sunday overcoat for a seven week old pup

They said it is was a bull dog, he belived them I suppose

We found it was a poodle with a badly broken nose



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Now me father said someday we'll live in the high part of the

town

But every time he gets a job they close the colliery down

Its not when the pits are closing when me fathers troubles start

Its when they close the pubs as well, it nearly breaks his heart



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Collected by Dennis Cook from someone's singing at an FSGW open

sing.

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