The Movin' Along Song lyrics

Born in the middle of the afternoon

In a horse drawn wagon on the old A5

The big twelve wheeler shook my bed

'You can't sleep here,' the policeman said,

'You'd better get born in someplace else

Refrain: So move along, get along, move along, get along

Go!

Born at the tattie lifting time

In an old bow tent in a tattie field

The farmer said, 'The work's all done

It's time that you were moving on

You'd better get born in someplace else

Refrain

Born on a common near the building site

Where the ground was rutted by the trailer's wheels

The local people said to me,

'You'll lower the price of property

You'd better get born in someplace else

Refrain

Born at the back of a hawthorn hedge

When a white hoare-frost lay all around

No Eastern kings came bearing gifts

Instead the order came to shift

'You'd better get born in someplace else

Refrain

The winter sky was hung with stars

And one shone brighter than all the rest

The wise men came so stern and strict

And brought the order to evict

'You'd better get born in someplace else

Refrain

Waggon, tent or trailer born

Last month, last year or in far off lands

Born here or a thousand miles away

There's always men nearby who'll say

'You'd better get born in someplace else

So move along, get along, move along, get along

Go! Move! Shift!

• Artist:Paddy Reilly
• Album:The Town I Loved so Well