The Gleaners

Did you ever try to visualise

One million milk bottles on your front step?

Would you have a plan what to do with them

Maybe make a mountain which you can climb?

Maybe crush it up and ship it off

To another country out of your mind

The Gleaners are right, the Gleaners are wise

To use the things everyday folk leave behind

The Gleaners are right, the Gleaners have rights

All hail the magpie, the second-handers

There's something wrong if we provide

Enough to live on from the waste we leave behind

And by the by, would you recognise

The voice of Al Bowly blaring out of a caravan?

Defiantly distorted in

The morning sunshine across the canal

The Gleaners are right, the Gleaners are wise

To use the things everyday folk leave behind

The Gleaners are right, the Gleaners have rights

All hail the magpie, the second-handers

There's something wrong if we provide

Enough to live on from the waste we leave behind

The Gleaners are right

The Gleaners are right