All Change from Real Lives by The Living Archive Band

All Change
Words & music: Kevin Adams

When this story first began, when Adam delved and Eve she span
Who was then the gentleman? I hear the ploughman cry
Rich man safe in his estate, poor man sits outside the gate
How much longer will he wait before he questions why?

All change, all change
Listen well and heed the call
All change, all change
See the writing on the wall
Change is coming for us all

Once I walked while master rode
Once I carried master's load
Laboured under master's goad
Tied to master's land
Iron forge and coal to burn has
Thrown the future in the furnace
Who can tell just where this journey's
Leading you and me?

Ploughman walks away from sorrow
Turns his back on field and furrow
Lends his strength unto tomorrow
On the iron way.
This soil here turned once for ever
Lines laid here that none can sever
Brings the distances together
Hastening the day -

All change , all change etc.

• Acoustic
• community
• documentary
• local history
• Milton Keynes