The lights are going out on the edge of Ghost Town
As a coldness penetrates through curtained windows
For the colliery streets shed no warmth light or heat
There is no joy or friendship here in winter

As me and my marrers go to get ourselves a pint
All we get are looks which make us shiver
For the people have changed though the place still looks the same
But the waggons don't run here anymore

Times are hard in this world when you get put out of work

The people up in power have shut down the waggon works

Times are hard in this world when you get put out of work

The people up in power have shut down the waggon works

The lights are going out on the edge of Ghost Town
As a coldness penetrates through curtained windows
For the colliery streets shed no warmth light or heat
There is no joy or friendship here in winter

Times are hard in this world when you get put out of work

The people up in power have shut down the waggon works

Times are hard in this world when you get put out of work

The people up in power have shut down the waggon works

Lights are going out on the edge of a ghost town

That once was the railway’s shining crown

A hundred and fifty years of tradition down the pan

We thought that we never could go down

To look across this valley, so green amidst the grey

And to think that this is where it all began

From Locomotion No.1 to the latest high speed train

And every piece of rolling stock that ever ran

Times are hard in this world when you get put out of work

The people up in power have shut down the waggon works

We supplied the world turning profit year by year

Now our town has been scrapped and left to die

They can deprive us of investment but not deprive us of our hope

For this community is strong and will survive

Times are hard in this world when you get put out of work

The people up in power have shut down the waggon works

The lights have gone out on the heart of our ghost town

But the lights have not gone out on its soul

Like a phoenix from the ashes see it rise and fly again

Triumphant, reborn, with a new goal

Times are hard in this world when you get put out of work

The people up in power have shut down the waggon works

Times are hard in this world when you get put out of work

The people up in power have shut down the waggon works

(Gary Miller)

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