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Go, Move, Shift

Ewan MacColl
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GO, MOVE, SHIFT


Born in the middle of the afternoon
In a horsedrawn carriage on the old A5
The big twelve wheeler shook my bed,
"You can't stay here" the policeman said.

You'd better get born in some place else.
So move along, get along, Move along, get along,
Go! Move! Shift!

Born in the common by a building site
Where the ground was rutted by the trail of wheels
The local Christian said to me,
"You'll lower the price of property."

You'd better get born in some place else.
So move along, get along, Move along, get along,
Go! Move! Shift!

Born at potato picking time
In a noble tent in a tatie field.
The farmer said, "The work's all done
It's time that you was moving on."

You'd better get born in some place else.
So move along, get along, Move along, get along,
Go! Move! Shift!

Born at the back of a hawthorn hedge
Where the black hole frost lay on the ground.
No eastern kings came bearing gifts.
Instead the order came to shift.

You'd better get born in some place else.
So move along, get along, Move along, get along,
Go! Move! Shift!

The eastern sky was full of stars
And one shone brighter than the rest
The wise men came so stern and strict
And brought the orders to evict

You'd better get born in some place else.
So move along, get along, Move along, get along,
Go! Move! Shift!

Wagon, tent or trailer born,
Last month, last year or in far off days.
Born here or a thousand miles away
There‚s always men nearby who'll say

You'd better get born in some place else.
So move along, get along, Move along, get along,
Go! Move! Shift!

[Six in the morning out in Inchicore
The guards came through the wagon door.
John Maughan was arrested in the cold
A travelling boy just ten years old.]

You'd better get born in some place else.
So move along, get along, Move along, get along,
Go! Move! Shift!

[Mary Joyce was living at the side of the road
No halting place and no fixed abode.
The vigilantes came to the Darndale site
And they shot her son in the middle of the night.]

You'd better get born in some place else.
So move along, get along, Move along, get along,
Go! Move! Shift!

GO! MOVE! SHIFT!

Born in the middle of the afternoon
In a horse-drawn wagon on the old A5;
The big twelve-wheeler shook me bed,
‘You can’t stop here’, the policeman said.
You’d better get born in some place else,
So move along get along move along get along
Go! Move! Shift!

Born in the tattie-lifting time
In an old bow tent near a tattie field.
The feirmer said the work’s a’ done,
It’s time that you was moving on,
You’d better get born in some place else,
So move along get along move along get along
Go! Move! Shift!

Born on a common near a building site
Where the ground is rutted by the trailers’ wheels;
The local people said to me,
You’ll lower the price of property,
You’d better get born in some place else,
So move along get along move along get along
Go! Move! Shift!

Wagon, tent or trailer born,
Last week, last year or in far-off days.
Born here or a thousand miles away.
There’s always men nearby who say:
You’d better get born in some place else,
So move along get along move along get along
Go! Move! Shift!

Born at the back of a blackthorn hedge,
When the white hoar frost lay all around;
No Eastern kings came bearing gifts,
Instead the order came to shift.
You’d better born in some place else,
So move along get along move along get along
Go! Move! Shift!

The winter sky was hung with stars
And one shone brighter than the rest;
The wise men came, so stern and strict,
And brought the order to evict.
You’d better get born in some place else,
So move along get along move along get along
Go! Move! Shift!


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