THE APPRENTICE LAD
Key:  D


Come on lad and bring your tool-bag,

Keep your eyes peeled, use your head.

Check your Footprint spanners, chisels,

From now on they'll earn your bread.

Keep your eyes on the older fitters,

They're the boys who know their stuff.

One day you will do their job,

If you're smart and keen enough



Come on boys and take your place
Among the men who serve their trade.
Scalers, cokers, bowsemen, stokers:
This is where the gas is made.
Mind your eye with that red-hot poker,
Read your gauge, you're on the town.
Turn her out bang on 450
Or you'll let the housewife down.


Wake up son and mind your setting,
E range is the one to watch.
Number three is due for scaling:
See she don't get too much ash.
Keep your eye on the old Fairweather,
Read your heat and see she's right.
Leave your range in decent order
For the lads on shift tonight.