Malvina Reynolds - The Lambeth Children O lyrics

== Version One: == Fifty children sitting in the trees, Fifty children swingin in the breeze, Up in the branches and off their knees, Hooray for the Lambeth children, O, Hooray for the Lambeth children, O. Eleven fine maples growing in a row, The road to be widened doomed them to go, But fifty kids of Lambeth cried "No, no!" Hooray for the Lambeth children, O, Hooray for the Lambeth children, O. Roads we've enough and roads everywhere, Roads for the cars we can very well spare, But long live the maple trees, green or bare, And hooray for the Lambeth children, O, Hooray for the Lambeth children, O. Woodsmen came with their axes and their saws, But kids on the branches, chirruping like daws, And the woodsmen said, "The devil with the laws, And hooray for the Lambeth children, O, And hooray for the Lambeth children, O." Lambeth town in Ontario, That's where the maple trees stand in a row, That's where the loveliest children grow, Hooray for the Lambeth children, O, Hooray for the Lambeth children, O. == Version Two: == Fifty children sitting in the trees, Fifty children swingin in the breeze, Up in the branches and off their knees, Hooray for the Lambeth children, O, Hooray for the Lambeth children, O. Eleven fine maples growing in a row, The road to be widened doomed them to go, But fifty kids of Lambeth cried "No, no!" Hooray for the Lambeth children, O, Hooray for the Lambeth children, O. The men with the chain saws all stood around, Cause the kids were in the trees and they wouldn't come down, So the lumberjacks packed up and went back to town, Hooray for the Lambeth children, O, Hooray for the Lambeth children, O. Roads we've enough and roads everywhere, Roads for the cars we can very well spare, But long live the maple trees, green or bare! And hooray for the Lambeth children, O, Hooray for the Lambeth children, O.