Get Away

Written by Pete Atkin for BBC TV 'Play Away' Jest Down The Road (1977) VIDEO CLIP
Performed by Julie Covington (rucksack), David Wood (stationmaster) and Toni Arthur (skateboard),
with Jonathan Cohen (pianoforte), Spike Heatley (bass), Alan Rushton (drums), Bob Falloon (guitar)

David:
        Get away, there's just one way to travel, to travel by train is the best way I
        know

Julie:
        No no no no no no no!

David:
        Oh, the hum of the diesel will ease all your troubles a-
        way

Julie:
        Get away, there's just one way to travel, and have all the joys of the green country-
        side

David:
        The train is the best way to ride

Julie:
        No! - striding out through the scenery, clean air replacing the
        grime

Toni:
        I'm the one who's found the fun way out of town today
        My wheelies really show you all the way

David:
        Ride the rails!
        Just one trip in a Deltic, a Streak or a Baltic, I'm weak at the knees

Julie:
        Give me less of this, please!

David:
        Oh, just having a Shah or a School your desire...

Julie:
        I desire to be free!

David:
        Free to find, you'll meet thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands alongside the
        line

Julie:
        But I like them one at a time

David:
        You're so slow!

Julie:
        Oh come on, what's the hurry,
        you hurry
        you hurry

David:
        you worry

Julie & David:
        you're mad!

Toni:
        The two of you should learn, the newest turns full of delight

David:
        It's technological!

Julie:
        Ecological!

Toni:
        Yes indeed

All:
        It's really out of sight!

Julie:
        I don't know

David:
        P'raps there is something in it

Julie:
        Just hold on a minute and 

Julie & David:
        give us the gen

Toni:
        You [words indistinct]

Julie:
        If you please

Toni:
        Well just [falls, words indistinct]

Julie:
        Me, I'll stick to walking,
        thank you

David:
        I'll stick to trains

Julie & David:
        You can't go wrong

Julie:
        No wipe-outs

David:
        No road rash

Toni:
        Just blisters, or a train crash

All:
        Maybe we should find us each ourselves a sep'rate personal trav'ling song 

David:
        I'm the original honky-tonk train

Julie:
        Keep right on to the end of the road, keep right on to the end

Toni:
        Skateboarding, skateboarding, skateboarding, yeah!

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