The Song of a Road

Original Release Date:  July 13, 1999

Track Listing

• 1. Introduction
• 2. We Usually Finish the Shift in the Pub...
• 3. I Thionk It's the Soil
• 4. We Are the Consulting Engineers
• 5. We Were in a Great Rush When We Did This
• 6. My Name Is.....
• 7. During That Time, a Survey Has Been Made.....
• 8. It Would Take Quite a Lot of Men to Do the Job of One of Those ...
• 9. Come All You Gallant Drivers
• 10. I'm a Roving Rambler...
• 11. Deep and Straight and Low
• 12. Sixty Tons of Steel
• 13. What Made You Come into This Game?
• 14. Just a Road
• 15. Oh Well That's Just the Way It Is
• 16. When the Muck Has All Been Shifted
• 17. Bring up Your Black Squad
• 18. Been on the Road So Long
• 19. You Can Talk About Your Concrete
• 20. The Motorway Is on the Final Lap
• 21. We Needed a Way Cut Through the Land

Credits

• Seamus Ennis: Vocals
• Ewan MacColl: Vocals, Engineer, Script
• Peggy Seeger: Banjo, Autoharp, Orchestration, Documentation, Music Direction
• Bruce Turner: Clarinet
• Cyril Tawney: Vocals
• Louis Killen: Vocals
• Stuart Bailey: Design
• Alf Edwards: Concertina, Ocarina
• Tony Engle: Producer
• A.L. Lloyd: Vocals
• Isla Cameron: Vocals
• Tony Dixon: Mastering
• Charles Parker: Producer, Engineer, Script
• John Chilton: Trumpet
• Francis McPeake: Vocals, Uillean Pipes
• Laurence Aston: Research, Annotation
• Richard Hollis: Design
• John Armitage: Drums
• Jimmy MacGregor: Vocals