THE GRAVEL PITS

In honour of May 24th weekend, here is Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers singing The Gravel Pits, with the lyrics below so the 'mainlanders' (and Texans) can understand what they are saying.
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The Pits

MAY 14, 2011

Recorded by: Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers

Written by: Wayne Chaulk

Lyrics

(CHORUS)

It’s the 24th of May and we likes to get away

Up in the woods or going out the bay

There’s all kinds of places but the place we likes to get

Is up on the highway in the gravel pits

We loves to go out in the good old gravel pits

We loves to go out there when life gets smelly

We can spray paint our names on the face of the cliff

Go up to the Irving for a coke and chips

Hitches up the camper and out of town we go

Out on the highway with everything in tow

The dog is in the back seat and Grandfather’s drunk

Youngsters in the trailer and the wife is in the trunk

(CHORUS)

It’s the 24th of May and we likes to get away

Up in the woods or going out the bay

There’s all kinds of places but the place we likes to get

Is up on the highway in the gravel pits

John is coming over and Sue and Henry too

We polish off a bottle and a pot of moose stew

We tell a few stories, an awful lot of lies

Green boughs on the fire to keep away the flies

The youngsters gets excited then they starts to bounce and jump up

When we piles in the car and goes up to the dump

It’s cheaper than the movies so we all sits and stares

Up by the garbage b’y you’re lookin at the bears

(CHORUS)

It’s the 24th of May and we likes to get away

Up in the woods or going out the bay

There’s all kinds of places but the place we likes to get

Is up on the highway in the gravel pits

We flies a Newfie flag on an old spruce pole

And drowns a few worms in a tractor mud hole

Then listens to the radio we plays it good and loud

A scoff on the Coleman stove is bound to draw a crowd

When the weekend’s over and we’re headed back to town

A half inch of sloppy snow lying on the ground

A hundred dollars poorer, who wants to be rich

We just had a lovely time out in the pits

(CHORUS)

It’s the 24th of May and we likes to get away

Up in the woods or going out the bay

There’s all kinds of places but the place we likes to get

Is up on the highway in the gravel pits

Is up on the highway in the gravel pits