Song | Night Mail |
Artist | Public Service Broadcasting |
Album | Inform Educate Entertain |
Alright boys, stand clear | |
8:30 pm, Weekdays and Sundays | |
The down Postal Special leaves Euston for Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen | |
The Postal Special is a fast express, but it carries no passengers | |
Half a million letters are sorted and picked up or dropped during the night | |
This is the Night Mail crossing the border | |
Bringing the cheque and the postal order | |
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor | |
The shop at the corner and the girl next door | |
Five hundred million letters every year | |
Trains from Bristol, Cardiff, Manchester, Stoke, Liverpool and Birmingham bring a thousand bags of mail to the north | |
This is the Night Mail crossing the border | |
Bringing the cheque and the postal order | |
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor | |
The shop at the corner and the girl next door | |
Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb | |
The gradient's against her, but she's on time | |
This is the Night Mail crossing the border | |
Bringing the cheque and the postal order | |
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor | |
The shop at the corner and the girl next door | |
Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb | |
The gradient's against her, but she's on time | |
Past cotton-grass and moorland boulder | |
Shovelling white steam over her shoulder | |
Snorting noisily as she passes | |
Silent miles of wind-bent grasses | |
Birds turn their heads as she approaches | |
Stare from the bushes at her blank-faced coaches | |
This is the Night Mail crossing the border | |
Bringing the cheque and the postal order | |
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor | |
The shop at the corner and the girl next door | |
Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb | |
The gradient's against her, but she's on time | |
She’s on time | |
She’s on time |
Alright boys, stand clear | |
8: 30 pm, Weekdays and Sundays | |
The down Postal Special leaves Euston for Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen | |
The Postal Special is a fast express, but it carries no passengers | |
Half a million letters are sorted and picked up or dropped during the night | |
This is the Night Mail crossing the border | |
Bringing the cheque and the postal order | |
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor | |
The shop at the corner and the girl next door | |
Five hundred million letters every year | |
Trains from Bristol, Cardiff, Manchester, Stoke, Liverpool and Birmingham bring a thousand bags of mail to the north | |
This is the Night Mail crossing the border | |
Bringing the cheque and the postal order | |
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor | |
The shop at the corner and the girl next door | |
Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb | |
The gradient' s against her, but she' s on time | |
This is the Night Mail crossing the border | |
Bringing the cheque and the postal order | |
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor | |
The shop at the corner and the girl next door | |
Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb | |
The gradient' s against her, but she' s on time | |
Past cottongrass and moorland boulder | |
Shovelling white steam over her shoulder | |
Snorting noisily as she passes | |
Silent miles of windbent grasses | |
Birds turn their heads as she approaches | |
Stare from the bushes at her blankfaced coaches | |
This is the Night Mail crossing the border | |
Bringing the cheque and the postal order | |
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor | |
The shop at the corner and the girl next door | |
Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb | |
The gradient' s against her, but she' s on time | |
She' s on time | |
She' s on time |