SALVATION BAND



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When I was just a little kid

On a Sunday morning early

Salvation band come down our street

To make their hurly-burly



Well they all stood around in a great big ring

And they started blowing cornets

And all the kids from miles around

Come a-swarming round like hornets



Salvation band with a big trombone

And the music fair goes through you

With their Onward Christian Soldiers

And their Glory Hallelujahs.



There were scores and scores and scores of kids,

Perhaps there were even thirty

And goodness knows who owned them all

But they all looked filthy dirty



There were Jackson's kid from across the street

And he were a right young villain

When collection box come around to him

He made off with fifteen shillings.



CHORUS



Now man, as stood and waved a big stick

Looked tall as half the houses

He'd got a grand new uniform

With gold braid down his trousers



Behind him ran little Tommy Jones

With his young grey pup called Dusty

And pup must have thought that man was a tree

'Cause gold braid's gone all rusty



CHORUS



Now rest didn't think band was up to much,

But me, I didn't mind 'em

So when they marched off down the street,

I marched off right behind 'em



Well they marched up t'other side of town,

Streets I'd never been in

And they ended in the back of a public house,

As my dada said I couldn't be seen in



CHORUS



When policemen fetched me home that night

They'd had their dinner without me

And when my dad found out where I'd been

I knew for a fact he'd clout me

Well I got buckle end of my dad's pit-strap

And that were plenty for me

I've never followed that band again,

And that's the end of me story.

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By Roger Watson, author of many first-rate songs about goings-on

in his native Derbyshire. This was one of his earliest.



Recorded by John Roberts and Tony Barrand on "Mellow with Ale

from the Horn", FHR-04



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