Mill Road Railway Workers Song

LYRICS by CBBC's Horrible Histories song-writer, Dave Cohen with some script input from Historyworks, sung here by Bethany Kirby:

As I was riding from Cambridge by train All along down along, out along lea I saw all the people who worked to maintain Two fitters one shunter, stone breaker, boiler maker

One railway examiner and all Five drivers all stood by the wall

As I was travelling in my Cambridge carriage All along down along, out along lea I saw all the people who helped with my baggage Four porters, three clerks and two guards and inspectors

A tubby controller and all A signalman high in his stall As I was walking through Romsey one day Thoday and Sedgewick Streets, all I could see

Was dozens of houses where railwaymen stay Two fitters one shunter, stone breaker, boiler maker Four porters, three clerks and two guards and inspectors One labourer, a strongman, coal porter, not song man

The railway examiner and all, Too many of them to recall