Champion at Keepin' 'em Rolling

Champion at Keepin' 'em Rolling - Ewan MscColl

I am an old-timer, I travel the roads

I sit in me wagon and lumber me low

Me hotel's a jungle, my cab's me abode

And I'm well known to Blondie and Mary

My liquor is diesel oil laced with strong tea

And the Ohio Code my first A-B-C

And I cut my teeth on an old AEC

I'm a champion at keeping 'em rolling

I sat in me wagon and broiled in the sun
I've been snowed up in shop on the Manchester run
And crawled through the fog with me twenty-two ton
Of fish that kept stinking like blazes
From London to Glasgow to the Newcastle keys
Liverpool, Leeds, and Bristol city
The pavannes on the road give the thumb sign to me
'Cause I'm champion at keeping 'em rolling

You may sing of your sailors and soldiers so bold
But many and many a hero's untold
Who sits by a wheel 'neath the heat and the cold
Day after day without sleeping
So watch out for cops, slow down at the bends
Check all your gauges and watch your big ends
And zig with your lights when you pass an old friend
If you're champion at keeping 'em rolling

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