The Welly Boot Song

Tune : "The work of the weaver"
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(Needs to be sung with a bit more "oomph" than this midi file)

Oh wellies they are wonderful, oh wellies they are swell
'Cause they keep out the water and they keep in the smell,
And when you're sitting in a room you can always tell
When some bugger takes off his wellies.

(Chorus) If it wasn't for your wellies where would you be?
You'd be in the hospital or infirmary,
'Cause you would have a dose of the flu or even pleurisy
If you didn't have you're feet in your wellies!

Oh and when you're out walking in the country with a bird
And you're strolling over fields just like a farmer's herd
And someone shouts, "Keep off the grass" and you think how absurd
And SQUELCH you find why farmers all wear wellies.

(Chorus)

There's fishermen and firemen, there's farmers and all
Men out digging ditches and working in the snow
This country it would grind to a halt and not a thing would grow
If it wasn't for the workers in their wellies

(Chorus)

Oh Tony Blair* and all his pals, they haven't made a hit
They're ruining this country more than just a bit
If they keep on the way they're going we'll all be in the (shhhhh)
So you'd better get your feet in your wellie!

If it wasn't for your wellies where would you be?
You'd be in the hospital or infirmary,
'Cause you would have a dose of the flu or even pleurisy
If you didn't have you're feet in your wellies!

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Although recorded by Billy Connelly, this song is listed as "Traditional" (although since it features wellies, just HOW traditional I can't say!)

*Insert the Prime Minister of the day!