Smoke Shovelling Song Lyrics - Incredible String Band/5000 Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onion - Incredible String Band

Last winter blew so cold no lies 

And my fire smoke would not rise 

Soon as the smoke would tried to depart 

It'd be froze up harder than a landlord's heart 

I called up the police yes and they came around 

Three days later and very brought down 

Sergeant he gave me this hysterical croak says 

"What do you think you have going here, some kind of joke?" 

Of course I wasn't laughing 

He says, "You're causing us officers so much grief 

Why don't you give us some relief? 

Why don't you call the fire brigade? 

Or maybe why don't you try shovelling 

The smoke up the chimney with a spade" 

I borrowed a spade from the woman next door 

And I broke up the smoke that remained on the floor 

I was shovelling away 

'Till the closing day singing a smoke-shovelling song 

After working so hard I went out to my yard 

And I looked up to my chimney so long 

There was nothing to see there 

Just a thousand foot high, way into the sky 

Was a pillar of smoke full of song 

There was an airplane stuck in it 

But I didn't notice at first 

It was so cunningly disguised as a dragon 

Come the summer at last, though it was rainy and fast 

The pillar it melted away 

Now the airplane fell with a big smoky smell 

And echoing around all over the town 

Was the words of the smoke shovelling song 

Any anyone telling a bigger story 

Would have to be telling a lie 

And anyone think a bigger one up 

Have to be very high