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Time Flies By (When You're a Driver of a Train) Lyrics

Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew
Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb

Let it happen bass player…

Time flies by when you’re a driver of a train
Speeding out of Trumpton with a cargo of cocaine
I get high when I’m the pilot of a plane
Touching down in Camberwick I’m stoned out of my brain

Under bridges, over bridges, to our destination
Careful with that spliff Eugene, it causes condensation
Every Saturday I get the Chigley skins
And they always smash my windows ‘cos the home side always wins

Yeah, time flies by when you’re a driver of a train
Gonna get me syringes out and crank up once again
Under bridges over bridges to our destination
Careful with that spliff Eugene it causes condensation

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snotface2 On Mar 04, 2007

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Cover art for Time Flies By (When You're a Driver of a Train) lyrics by Half Man Half Biscuit

by paul_f

18y ago

Satire based on the kids' TV shows Trumpton, Chigley and Camberwick Green.

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