{"id":1443,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/the-8-3-0"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"the-8-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/the-8-3-0\/","title":{"rendered":"THE 8-3-0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish traditional song lyrics \u2014 collected by Beer Belly Band.<\/em><\/p>\n

He was driving up to Mallaig, Glenfinnan by Loch Shiel,
\nHeading for Lochailort, content behind the wheel,
\nThe road was getting narrower\u2026 the sign said slow,
\nIt’s the Highland daily dodgems, it’s the 8-3-0.<\/p>\n

There is a natural assumption that ‘A’ roads are wide,
\nEnough to take a car\u2026 and one the other side,
\nTourist information, will never, never tell,
\nIt’s like driving through heaven on a road made for hell.<\/p>\n

Cos it’s a single track, you can’t turn back,
\nThe stories are all the same, of the tourists leaving Corpach,
\nNever seen again\u2026 Don’t go, on the 8-3-0.<\/p>\n

There’s a joke in the highlands, it’s called a ‘passing place’,
\nWhere French stay for chips\u2026 and English stay for days and days and days,
\nWhen lorries lose control\u2026 you’ve got one last wish,
\n“Don’t let me die under 20 tons of fish”.<\/p>\n

Cos it’s a single track, you can’t turn back,
\nA nightmare without end,
\nEyes ahead, ‘cos Nigel Mansell’s waiting round the bend\u2026
\nDon’t go, on the 8-3-0.<\/p>\n

Whoever called this road a road was telling little lies
\nThe 8-3-O’s a sheep-track in very thin disguise,
\nItalian caravanettes, driving on the right,
\nMeeting Wallace Arnold buses in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n

Of the man that’s stopping progress, a theory’s going around,
\nThat he owns the biggest breakers yard this side of Mallaig town,
\nYou can see him in the gloaming, towing wrecks from where they lie,
\nAnd he turns them into girders for the bridge across to Skye.<\/p>\n

And it’s a single track, he’s in Mallaig and now he feels no pain,
\nHe’s dumped his car; he’s in the bar he’s steaming back by train\u2026 on a single track, you can’t turn back
\nThe moral’s very plain, it’s grand to visit Mallaig\u2026 but it’s safer by MacBrane,
\nDon’t go on the 8-3-0, Don’t go on the 8-3-0, Don’t go on the 8-3-0.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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