We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £1 GBP  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

lyrics

4x4 Pram

You arrived in the north east,
Looking for properties,
To invest in neglect,
You bring an infestation of greed.

Well you can't pick the pocket,
That's got nothing but holes inside,
You're missing the fact that,
You can't put a price on our pride.

So, "Laugh you daft bugger", we sang,
Get off home in your 4x4 pram.

Oh, what were you playing at,
You came here beset with and,
But you're too young at heart,
To wear the face of a bitter old man.

Back home you have breeding,
Entitled ancestral lands,
Up here we've communities,
Lifting the world on our backs.

So, "Laugh you daft bugger", we sang,
Get off home in your 4x4 pram.

It seems that, crucially,
You assumed, unthinkingly,
Up here it's all grim, grey and crap,
Now we, unusually,
Suffer fools and their cynically,
Ignorant grins and their vacuous tact,
So give us half a chance and we'll prove,
An exception to each nonsense you knew.

'Cause there's only so far you get,
With privileged prejudice,
When contempt and avarice,
Discolour the verdant green shades.

Of the Vale and the Wolds,
And the rich Earth of Holderness,
The Moor's timeless beauty rebuts,
Your preconception's charade.

So, "Laugh you daft bugger", we sang,
Get off home in your 4x4 pram,
So, "Laugh you daft bugger", we sang,
Get off home in your 4x4 pram.

credits

from the beautiful wreckage, released February 1, 2018

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Tim O'Connor image

Tim O'Connor Hull, UK

Tim O'Connor is an English Folk/Rock songwriter based in Yorkshire, UK, Performing & recording since the late Seventies, Tim has released a large catalogue of albums, 39 to date, available on his record label, Uilleand Music.

Band Projects:

cowfisH, from 1992 onwards.

The Ant Farm Collective, from 2014-2017.

Tim O’Connor & the Poachers 2018- ... more

contact / help

Contact Tim O'Connor

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Tim O'Connor, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featured guests are the golden-voiced Baby Rose and psyche soulsters Brainstory.
listen now