Lyrics The Lambeth Children - Malvina Reynolds

The Lambeth Children

Fifty children sitting in the trees
Fifty children swingin' in the breeze
Up in the branches and off their knees
Hooray for the Lambeth children, O
Hooray for the Lambeth children, O
Eleven fine maples growing in a row
The road to be widened doomed them to go
But fifty kids of Lambeth cried «No, no!»
Hooray for the Lambeth children, O
Hooray for the Lambeth children, O
Roads we’ve enough and roads everywhere
Roads for the cars we can very wll spare
But long live the mapl trees, green or bare
And hooray for the Lambeth children, O
Hooray for the Lambeth children, O
Woodsmen came with their axes and their saws
But kids on the branches, chirruping like daws
And the woodsmen said, «The devil with the laws
And hooray for the Lambeth children, O
And hooray for the Lambeth children, O.»
Lambeth town in Ontario
That’s where the maple trees stand in a row
That’s where the loveliest children grow
Hooray for the Lambeth children, O
Hooray for the Lambeth children, O