I am just a rail buff, but my story's seldom told, I have jettisoned my pasttime for a pocket full of principles and strong opinions. New tales are best, but the boys hear what they want to hear and disregard the rest.
When I started on this journey, I was no more than a boy, in the company of strangers, in the quiet of the railway records library. Laying low, seeking out the vital info where all others feared to go, looking for the tales that they don't want to know.
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Lie Lie Lie, Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie, Lie Lie Lie, Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie
Asking the minimum of questions, I went looking for the truth, but I got no answers, just told to mind my own business and say nothing, I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome, I started to despair. La la la……
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And I'm laying out my arguments and wishing I was wrong, totally wrong, for the truth is so disgusting that it sickens me, sickens me, yes it does.
Up in Laytown lives a cheater and a liar by his trade, Lord Laytown's a real danger, to every rail campaigner, he will cheat you on what's yours now and he'll take it all away, he is rotten, he is devious, he is corruption by his name.
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Sung to the tune of "The Boxer" by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.
Copyright Ewan Duffy 2005