MOVE ALONG SONG                   Ewan MacColl
Key: A#m  (Am capo 1)
Intro: Am, Em (x4)

Am          Em            Am        Em       G           Em            G    Am Em Am Em
Born in the middle of the afternoon,    on a horse-drawn waggon on the old A5.
Am       Em  Am   Em       Am        D          C            G       Em
A big 12-wheeler  shook my bed: "You can't stop here", the policeman said,

Chorus:
       Am         G       Em
"You'd better get born in someplace else, so
 Am          Em         Am          Em          Am   G      Intro 
"Move along, get along, move along, get along, "Go - move - shift!"


Born in tatie-lifting time, in an old cold tent by a tatie-field.
The farmer said "The work's all done, it's time that you was movin' on,

Chorus

Born on a common near a building-site, where the ground was rutted by the trailers' wheels.
The local people said to me "You'll lower the price of property:

Chorus

Born at the back of a blackthorn hedge when the white hoar-frost lay all around.
No Eastern Kings came bearing gifts, instead the order came to shift:

Chorus

The Winter sky was hung with stars, but one shone brighter than the rest.
The Wise Men came, so stern and strict, and brought the order to evict:

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Waggon- tent- or trailer-born, last month, last year or in far-off days,
born here or a tousand miles away, there's always men nearby who'll say:

Am                G       Em
"You'd better get born in someplace else, so
 Am          Em         Am          Em          Am   G      Am
"Move along, get along, move along, get along, "Go - move - shift!"