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Colum Sands
	Year:	1989
	Album:	THE MARCH DITCH
	Song:	The marching season
Words & Music Colum Sands, Elm Grove Music Colum Sands: vocals, guitar, tin wistle, Ben Sands: mandoline, backing vocals Pete Hughes: Drums
Last night I awoke wilh the thought in my head That instead of four seasons we have five instead For som ewhere inside of where summer should be Is the season of marching, for marching must be. Chorus: And were marching, marching, marching. marching again. Now four of the seasons give forecasters pain Will it be sunshine or will it be rain Munster say hailstones end Connaught say blow Leinster say sunshine and Ulster say snow. Chorus But each year the fifth season's easily forscast Don't look at the weather map look at the past Temperatures high and tolerance low lf you've somewhere to go it's the right time to go. Chorus Then says I to myself now if marching must be Let's do the thing right so the whole world can see We'll build a big stadium centrally placed With a circular route where the marchers can pace. Chorus To build such a place would throw lots off the Dole Stones could be thrown in a meaningful role As builders and masons regardless of creed Build the big marching stadium we so badly need. Chorus There'd be seating for tourists to sit end to stare In our wonderful heritage, -they'd have a share And a fiver a seat isn't money in vain To travel three centuries down memory lane. Chorus Riot facilities would be provided Dressing rooms could be hired, mixed or divided And to really pull in massive crowds we could hope For annual concerts by Queen and the Pope. Chorus Then Marchers could march all the whole year round No longer the trouble of marching through towns Safe in the stadium the glorious past While the rest of us turn to the present at last. Chorus (2x)