Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud
Music: The Hippo song (Flanders/Swan)
Lyrics: Bruce Peckett
First Performed by: Bruce Peckett
Notes: Mud supplied by Hereford & Gloucester Canals Trust, Droitwich
Canals Trust, Barnsley Canal Group etc. etc.
First Heard: WRGTV (1999 National at Worcester)
A red shirted navvy was digging one day
At the base of a derelict lock
He was up to his neck in the mud, bricks and clay
And silently cursing his lot
While all those around him seemed
happy and gay
His face it was showing the strain
His companions espied this
And to raise up his spirits
They sang him this little refrain
Chorus:
Mud, mud, glorious mud
A navvy’s most happy when covered in crud
Your not a real WRGy unless you are dirty
And up to your neck in the glorious mud
Verse 2:
The Waterway Recovery Group’s purpose they say
Is restoring canals which have gone
But the truth which is bound to come out some fine day
Has been known to a few all along
Now the WRG heirarchy and all that
malarkey
Are part of a devious plot
For they all have a fetish and what they most relish
The rest of us put in plant pots
Chorus
Verse 3:
At uprooting trees and clearing out weeds
There really is no finer crew
And when duty calls, they’ll rebuild lock walls
And sink the odd digger or two
Each week they’re out working in gangs large and small
On camps, big digs and work groups
They won’t be complaining, when it is raining
’Cos that’s what it takes to produce
Chorus
