All around the country,
They're turning green to grey,
What grows up for a century,
In a minute you can throw it away.

They come down here with chainsaws,
They come down with JCBs
They're digging up all of the hedgerows, boys
And they're digging up all of the trees.

All around the country,
They're turning green to grey,
What grows up for a century,
In a minute you can throw it away.

Saw the man, the engineer,
Pocket-full of TNT
And he laid it under the mountain side
And blew it to eternity.

All around the country,
They're turning green to grey,
What grows up for a century,
In a minute you can throw it away.

I lived down by the meadow,
I used to live down by the wood,
But they come down with bricks and ready-mix
And there's a city where the trees once stood.

All around the country,
They're turning green to grey,
What grows up for a century,
In a minute you can throw it away.

You can spend your lifetime
Writing to bureaucracy
But you'll use up so much paper,
You'll just be digging up another tree.

All around the country,
They're turning green to grey,
What grows up for a century,
In a minute you can throw it away.

They come down here with chainsaws,
They come down with JCBs
They're digging up all of the hedgerows, boys
And they're digging up all of the trees.

All around the country,
They're turning green to grey,
What grows up for a century,
In a minute you can throw it away.

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written by Nic Jones
Sung by Nic Jones on "In Search of Nic Jones"