The Lambeth Children - Malvina Reynolds

Fifty children sitting in the trees

Fifty children swingin' in the breeze

Up in the branches and off their knees

Hooray for the Lambeth children, O

Hooray for the Lambeth children, O

Eleven fine maples growing in a row

The road to be widened doomed them to go

But fifty kids of Lambeth cried «No, no!»

Hooray for the Lambeth children, O

Hooray for the Lambeth children, O

Roads we’ve enough and roads everywhere

Roads for the cars we can very wll spare

But long live the mapl trees, green or bare

And hooray for the Lambeth children, O

Hooray for the Lambeth children, O

Woodsmen came with their axes and their saws

But kids on the branches, chirruping like daws

And the woodsmen said, «The devil with the laws

And hooray for the Lambeth children, O

And hooray for the Lambeth children, O.»

Lambeth town in Ontario

That’s where the maple trees stand in a row

That’s where the loveliest children grow

Hooray for the Lambeth children, O

Hooray for the Lambeth children, O