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Intro
Every Sunday 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.
Chorus
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 mum, she ran away,
She'd rather live from hand to mouth than live from day to day.
Well me father's often lonely, but it's a blessing in disguise;
It's cured me mother's headaches 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 then he told me lots of rules.
Then 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 brand new overcoat for a seven-week-old pup.
They said it is was a bull dog, he believed them I suppose.
We found it was a poodle with a badly broken nose!
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Well, they sent me home from school last week, 'cause they said that I had nits,
Me mother said she was ashamed, but I was thrilled to bits.
The other kids were green with envy, so I knew just what to do;
I sold them nits at ten pence each, and they all got sent home too!
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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.
It's not when the pits are closing when me father's troubles start;
It's when they close the pubs as well, it nearly breaks his heart!