I'M CHAMPION AT KEEPING 'EM ROLLING

(Ewan MacColl)

tune; Limerick Rake



I am an oldtimer, I travel the road

I sit on me wagon and lumber me load

My hotel is the jungle, a caf's me abode

And I'm well known to Blondy and Mary



My liquor is diesel oil laced with strong tea

And the old highway code was my first A B C

And I cut my eyeteeth on an old A E C

And I'm champion at keeping 'em rolling



I've sat in my cabin and broiled in the sun

Been snowed up on Shap on the Manchester run

I've crawled through the fog with my 22 tons

Of fish that was stinking like blazes



From London to Glasgow to the Newcastle quay

From Liverpool, Preston and Bristol City

The polones on the road give the thumbs sign to me

For I'm champion at keeping 'em rolling



You may sing of your soldiers and sailors so bold

But there's many and many a hero untold

Who sits at the wheel in the heat and the cold

Day after day without sleeping



So watch out for the cops and slow down at the bends

Check all your gauges and watch your big ends

And zig with your lights when you pass an old friend

You'll be champion at keeping 'em rolling



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