When we go rolling, rolling

When we go rolling home

The gentry in their fine array

Do prosper night and morn

While we unto the fields must go

To plough and sow the corn

The rich may steal the power

But the glory’s ours alone

When we go rolling home,

when we go rolling home

CHORUS

The summer of resentment

The winter of despair

The journey to contentment

Is set with trap and snare

Stand true and stand together

Your labour is your own

When we go rolling home,

when we go rolling home

CHORUS

So pass the bottle round

And let the toast go free

Here’s a health to every labourer

Wherever they may be

Fair wages now and ever

Let’s reap what we have sown

When we go rolling,

when we go rolling home

CHORUS

Stand To

Stand to me bonny lads

Stand to and make you ready

Stand to me bonny lads

Hold the line right steady

Let pride burn through the flame

This day shall bear your name

Stand to me bonny lads –

hold the line right steady

Goodbye Dolly Gray

Goodbye Dolly I must leave you

Though it breaks my heart to go

Something tells me I am needed

At the front to fight the foe

See the soldier boys are marching

And I can no longer stay

Hark, I hear the bugle calling

Goodbye Dolly Gray

About the Author

Nick Stafford’s stage plays include The Canal Ghost, The Whisper of Angels’ Wings, Moll Cutpurse, The Snow Queen, Listen with dA dA, The Devil’s Only Sleeping, The Go Between, Battle Royal, Luminosity, Love Me Tonight and Katherine Desouza. His plays for radio include A Matter of Sex (winner of Sony Gold Award Best Original Script), Ring of Roses, La Petite Mort, The List, A Year and a Day, The Fire Inside, Birdsong, A Thousand Acres and Frankenstein. His TV films include The Missing Finger. His screenplays include The Blue Suit, Pity (winner of Dennis Potter Play of the Year Award 1998) and Katherine Desouza. He was writer in residence at the Young Vic, 1991, and at Birmingham Repertory Theatre from 1997 to 1998.

Michael Morpurgo is the author of more than a hundred titles. His books have been translated into over twenty-five languages, and many have been made into films and plays. In 1976 he and his wife Clare set up the charity Farms for City Children, and in the last thirty years over sixty thousand children have come to stay and work on one of the farms run by the charity. From 2003 to 2005 Michael became the third Children’s Laureate and travelled all over the world telling stories to anyone who would listen. Since then he has continued to write and published ten new titles, among them Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea, The Amazing Adventures of Adolpus Tips, Beowulf, Born to Run, The Mozart Question and Singing for Mrs Pettigrew.

By Nick Stafford from Faber

LOVE ME TONIGHT

LUMINOSITY

BATTLE ROYAL