Take Your Bulldozers Away
© John Dengate 1969 updated Dale Dengate 2018
You can take your bulldozers from under our noses,
We’re not near as gutless as Gladys supposes,
Build your M5 ‘way a bloody-sight less way
And take your bulldozers away.
Chorus:
WestConnex to the devil … swallow your drivel and shovel your gravel,
Bring back Green Bans forever; we’ll keep your bulldozers away.
You can take your bulldozers to Pharaoh and Moses,
You’ll find demolition is no bed of roses.
We’re not going to live with your WestConnex motorway –
Take your bulldozers away.
You can tell your authorities that their priorities
Don’t meet the needs of the urban majority –
Hands off that heritage! Spare our community!
Take your bulldozers away.
In the original Take Your Bulldozers Away © 1969 the late John Dengate was writing in opposition to the North West Distributor going through Glebe and Ultimo, including Fig Street. Reproduced with permission. [Musical score available on request. Ed.]