They're Moving Father's Grave

DESCRIPTION: "They're moving Father's grave to build a sewer." Father's remains are being moved "to irrigate some posh bloke's residence"; the singer hopes his ghost will haunt the pipes, "for they had the bleeding nerve/To muck about a British workman's grave"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1959 (Cray-AshGrove)
KEYWORDS: death burial worker ghost humorous
FOUND IN: Britain
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Cray-AshGrove, p. 35, "They Are Moving Father's Grave" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 267, "They're Moving Father's Grave" (1 text)
DT, SEWERMOV SEWERMO2
Roud #10391
NOTES [9 words]: Pity we don't have the keyword "class-struggle". - PJS
File: FSWB267

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