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seamus moore - the transit van lyrics

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[verse 1]
margaret thatcher talking on tv
looks so sincere as she says to me:
“there’d be no unemployment if
you all used a bit of initiative.”

[chorus]
i was on the dole, i was broke and bored
says, “aye, i’ll take her at her word!”
got a loan from a credit union man
and bought myself a transit van

[verse 2]
next step up the ladder now
i bought myself an old, fat sow
crossed the border quite legally
collected a common market subsidy

[chorus]
signed all the forms, and gave back the pen
smuggled the sow back home again
ten times a day, i’d work this plan
myself and the sow and the transit van

[verse 3]
travel sickness, the sow picked up
says, “aye it’s time to diversify”
took all my money from the biscuit tin
filled the van to the roof with whiskey and gin

[chorus]
around the south, my wares i’d sell
in public houses and hotels
there was never a guard, nor a customs man
put his nose inside the transit van

[verse 4]
at festivals and fleadhs and fairs
if the craic was good, you’d find me there
at all big matches in croke park
and i danced with springsteen in the dark

[chorus]
i fought with the tinkers in ballinasloe
i danced on streets around listowell
mothers had their daughters warned
stay well away from the transit van

[verse 5]
it being lent and the drink trade low
i changed to carrying video
while on the road to ballybay
found a customs roadblock in my way

[chorus]
faced the border, i got her turned
the engine roared and the tyres burned
five patrol cars fully-manned
were in hot pursuit of the transit van

[verse 6]
through clontibret i did go
i was heading for the county mayo
round the corner i hit a dog
went over the ditch landed in the bog

[chorus]
i sat on a bank, watched all i owned
sinking in a bog hole like a stone
she was lying on the roof with the wheels still turning
and the stereo playing daniel o’donnell

[verse 7]
now i’m back where i first began
no job, no money, but i’ve a plan
there’s a girl down in mullingar
she can hold me future in her hand

[chorus]
she doesn’t look like a film star
but she’s been telling me about her dad
he has no property or land
but he has two sows and a transit van

[verse 8]
the queen of england drives a rolls royce car
her son charley has a jaguar
but when the pope came to ireland…
like myself
he drove around in a transit van!

- seamus moore lyrics

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