Bloody Gas Street
by Dave Moore, Dave Hogg and Eddie Hambridge
Oh the bloody pay is bloody bad
The bloody boss is bloody mad
It makes the brightest bloody sad
In bloody Gas St.
The bloody folks are bloody poor
They throw their crap out on the shore
We'll slide about for evermore
In bloody Gas St.
The bloody water's full of muck
And Waterways don't give a f###
There ain’t enough to float a duck
In bloody Gas St.
The bloody gaffers on the drink
Goes down him like a bloody sink
Bank statements they are all dark pink
In bloody Gas St.
No bloody cash-they've stopped the dole
We'll starve to death in this dark hole
We've burnt up all our bloody coal
In bloody Gas St.
We'd love to see some clear blue sky
The stench is getting somewhat high
We'll rot here till we bloody die
In bloody Gas St
This song came to my attention whilst searching the Canal Discussion Forum for details of another song but I was
pleased to find it. It was posted in 2014 by Dave Moore who stated “I was rummaging in our loft recently and came
across the following. Back in the 60s I hung around Gas St Basin, where Birmingham and Midland Canal Carrying were
based. One night I was with two of the full time boaters, Dave Hogg and Eddie Hambridge. In a mildly disgruntled
mood we put this together. It's based on a squaddies song called " Bloody Orkney", a moan about his posting there.”
Several recordings of ‘Bloody Orkney’ can be found on the internet.