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Finish The Job (Cleethorpes 1974)

from Forgotten Classics by Jon Horne

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Across the new estate, I can go anywhere
Climb the garden gate, I need to show off my new long hair
Grown like a willow, tied up in a school tie
Like a tennis player or an Indian

It was better before they dug in the trees
Better when you could feel the breeze from the sea
Better when the beck was flowing high after the rain
Better before the diggers came
To finish the job, please don’t finish the job
I like it the way it is

Over the wall into the delivery yard
Line up beneath the lights, trying to look hard
Pick sides for the fight, hoping you’re not the last
‘Cause I don’t think I can run that fast

The bridge sounds like tin cans at the cricket
Alone at night, I can still hear it
Donkeys waking up in the field behind the hotel
It’s four AM and the diggers have come
To finish the job, please don’t finish the job
I like it the way it is

When the wasteland’s gone there’ll be nowhere to go
Nowhere to think, nowhere for the beck to flow
they’ll cover it up, turn it into a drain
What about the sticklebacks?

The rattling bridge left over from the war
Doesn’t move when you drive over it any more
The dunes don’t crumble underneath the road
It’s just a path and they’ve let it go

When you leave it all starts to make sense
It was always just a work in progress
This never was going to be the last road in town
It just happened to be, when I was around

And the donkey field is a car park now
Except it’s not because the cinema’s shut down
And the bowling alley and the new café
Brambles are growing through the tarmac

To finish the job…

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from Forgotten Classics, released November 29, 2020
© Jon Horne

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Jon Horne Edinburgh, UK

Chronicling the folibles of the age via the medium of contemporary folk song since 2005.

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Even rougher recordings can be found at hornesdemoshop.bandcamp.com ... more

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