Navvies Jerusalem

And did that pound in Brindley's time
Wind among England's valleys green?
And was a noble flight of locks
On every lovely landscape seen?
But then the railway giants came,
With soot and smoke, and fire and flame,
And they despoiled the waterways
To England's everlasting shame.

Bring me my boots and grappling iron!
Bring me my mighty JCB!
Bring me my spade! O ecstasy!
Bring me a gallon flask of tea!
I will not flinch from seas of mud,
Nor shall my sludge-pump idly stand,
Till we've restored the waterways
Through England's green and pleasant land