The Night Soil Men

Night Soil Men – Night Soil Men

We’ll say it again – we’re the Night Soil Men

We work with soil – we work at night

We’re the Night Soil Men – we get it right!

We work with spades – sometimes it’s bricks

We’re the Night Soil Men – we handle picks

We’re inside caves – and inside hovels

Digging soil – moving shovels

We work down deep – we graft and toil

When you’re asleep we’re shifting soil

We’re the Night Soil Men – Night Soil Men

Don, Doug and Den – we’re the Night Soil Men!

Copyright: from Cuckoo Rock (Salt, 2010), © Philip Bowen 2010, used by permission of the author

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