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Song Of A Road - A Radio Ballad About The Building Of The M1 Motorway
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Song Of A Road - A Radio Ballad About The Building Of The M1 Motorway --- 1999
First transmitted on the BBC Home Service 5th of November 1959. Comes with a 20 page booklet of notes on this and the other 7 radio ballads originally broadcast by the BBC between July 1958 and April 1964.
Tracklist
Introduction
We Usually Finish The Shift In The Pub...
I Think It's The Soil...
We Are The Consulting Engineers...
We Were In A Great Rush When We Did This...
My Name Is...
During That Time A Survey Had Been Made...
It Would Take Quite A Lot Of Men To Do The Work Of Those Machines...
Come All You Gallant Drivers...
I'm A Roving Rambler...
Deep And Straight And Low...
Sixty Tons Of Steel...
What Made You Come Into This Game?...
Just A Road...
Oh Well, That's Just The Way It Is...
When The Muck Has All Been Shifted...
Bring Up Your Black Squad...
Been On The Road So Long...
You Can Talk About Your Concrete...
The Motorway Is On The Final Lap...
We Needed A Way Cut Through The Land...