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Bob Fox will be returning to Grayshott Village Hall to perform for Grayshott Folk Club on September 20 at 7.30pm.
A singer, guitarist and accordion player from County Durham, and deeply influenced by its working-class culture and industrial history, he last played at Grayshott in July 2022.
His career began during England’s vibrant folk revival of the 1960s and 1970s, and he has toured the world with the likes of Stu Luckley, Ralph McTell, Richard Thompson, Jethro Tull and Fairport Convention.
Bob played the Songman in the National Theatre production of War Horse in the West End between 2011 and 2013.

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00:00Oh, the Iron Road is a hard road, and the work is never ending, and you're working nights
00:22today on the Iron Way, and we're the boys who keep the engines rolling, and we're the boys
00:34who keep the engines rolling. Now when you're signed on at the local ship, they're wanting
00:41to live for the name, and you're saying, you're don't agree, you're feeling super decent, though
00:50you're a super-rober, rober, rober, shovel, spinners, fire-ringers, steam-riders, fire-rober, gentle-rober, bottle-washer, learning how to keep the engines rolling, and you're learning how to keep the engines rolling.
01:07Then when you're during time at the local ship, I can share your troubles. Well, it's on the own for too late, and you're the driver's mate, and then you're married to a lousy show.
01:30Well, it's check the water, check the tools, and jump that bloody cooling, and then you're the kids, and you're the white, and check your lousy show.
01:35Well, it's check the water, check the tools, and jump that bloody cooling, and then you're the kids, and you're the white, and check your lousy show.
01:48A flight to bite, then it's swim-y soul, that beat double, watch the clock endure rock, steam-raising, swim-bewing, backing-able, sheeting.
01:57Fire-ring, fire-ring, keep the engines rolling. And fire-ring, fire-ring, keep the engines rolling.
02:18Then when you shook a million tons of gold, ten or twelve years later, and your only dream is of prison in steam,
02:32you'll send a hand to you, your driver's papers, and you'll send a hand to you, your driver's papers.
02:41For the Iron Lord, it's a hard one, and the work is never again, and you'll work at night and day, on the Iron Way.
02:55The other Lord would rise as the early rises, long to turn, a smile burst, never quit if he goes.
03:01We're the boys who keep the ancients rolling, and we're the boys who keep the ancients rolling.
03:10And we're the boys who keep the ancients rolling.
03:15And we're the boys who keep the ancients rolling.
03:20I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
03:24I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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