The Ballad of the Crocodile and the Underpass

The Town of Roundabouts

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The Town of Roundabouts

Verse 1

Photographs I took

So many shades of colour

Stapled in a book

Suppose I never looked around

The corners of this town

Until I wrote it down

Verse 2

Amenities and folk

Shops and village pubs

Don’t fix what isn’t broken

They were right there on the door

And now we long for more

Reminiscent of before

Chorus

60 Years we’ve seen of this new town

But it feels like it’s always been around

Through these roads we’ve been lost and we’ve been found

In the town of roundabouts

Verse 3

Districts they stood tall

Set apart by numbers

Wasn’t long before they’d fall

People just wanted a name

A village they could claim

A place to call home

Chorus

60 Years we’ve seen of this new town

But it feels like it’s always been around

Through these roads we’ve been lost and we’ve been found

In the town of roundabouts

Middle 8

Fields of grass

Pictures taken on a Kodac

Memories to last

Rumoured Crocodiles

Beautiful wildlife

Time it goes so fast

Chorus

60 Years we’ve seen of this new town

But it feels like it’s always been around

Through these roads we’ve been lost and we’ve been found

In the town of roundabouts

Town of Roundabouts was written and performed by Paige Temperley.

Credits

You’ve been listening to the Washington Community Podcasting group and Brenda Naisby Tony Erskine (the Artist for Washington Development, Corporation), Ian Murray, Roseanna Erskine, Sarah Murray, Doug Walker, Bob Hope, Kim Hunter, Gloria Finnigan, Thomas Finnigan, Olive Metcalfe and Ellaine Davidson.

The Crocodile and the Underpass ballad podcast is produced by Grace Stubbings and the Washington community podcasting group, with songs composed and performed by David Brewis and Paige Temperley. The project was developed by Washington Heritage Partnership, Sunderland City Council’s Washington Area Committee, Sunderland Culture at The Arts Centre Washington, Baseline Shift and We Make Culture, with support from the University of Sunderland. and The National Heritage Lottery Fund. This project has been made possible by the support of The National Lottery Heritage Fund with many thanks to National Lottery players