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The Hartlake Bridge Disaster

from A Life Spent Staring At Chairs by Paul Carbuncle

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Now seven and thirty strangers a-hopping they had been
They was employed by Mr Cox down at Golden Green
’Twas in the parish of Hadlow near old Tonbridge town
They heard the screams of those poor souls
When they was going down, i-o-i-o

Now some was men and women and others was girls and boys
They were crossing Hartlake Bridge when the horse took shy
’Twas in the parish of Hadlow near old Tonbridge town
That’s where they laid those poor souls
After they was drowned, i-o-i-o

Now all the customers in The Bell come running down to the bridge
But in the Medway thirty sunk and only seven lived
’Twas in the parish of Hadlow near old Tonbridge town
Just hear the screams of those poor souls
When they was going down, i-o-i-o

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from A Life Spent Staring At Chairs, released April 9, 2018
Traditional song, arranged by Paul Carbuncle.

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