Last winter blew so cold no lies,
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And my fire smoke would not rise;
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Soon as the smoke tried to depart,
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It'd be froze up harder thatn a landlord's heart.
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I called up the police and they came around
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Three days later and very brought down.
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The sergeant he gave me this hysterical croak.
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Says, "What do you think you have going here, some kind of joke?"
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(of course I wasn't laughing)
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He says, "You're causing us officers so much grief,
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Why don't you give us some relief?
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Why don't you call the fire brigade?
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Or maybe why don't you try shovelling the smoke up the chimney with a spade."
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I borrowed a spade from the woman next door,
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And I broke up the smoke that remained on the floor,
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I was shovelling away, 'till the closing day singing a smoke-shovelling song.
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After working so hard I went out to my yard,
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And I looked up to my chimney so long, (there was nothing to see there)
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Just a thousand foot high, way into the sky,
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Was a pillar of smoke full of song.
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There was an airplane stuck in it,
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but I didn't notice at first it was so cunningly disguised as a dragon.
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Came the summer at last, though it was rainy and fast,
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The pillar it melted away,
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The airplane fell with a big smoky smell,
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And echoing around all over the town,
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Was the words of the smoke shovelling song.
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Any anyone telling a bigger story would have to be telling a lie,
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And anyone think a bigger one up,
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Have to be very high.
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Smoke Shovelling Song
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The Incredible String Band |