The Singing Loins - Ascending Chatham Hill lyrics

It's a long, long way up Chatham Hill* From the Luton Road Railway Arches To the Jezreels Hose Clip Factory It's a thorny hill to paradise From the High Street Cash Converters To the second hand Medway Motor Dealers One glorious day I will enter the Eden of Upper Gillingham By whirlwind and fiery chariot There to rest where the air is sweet The course of my earthly life complete Sing Gillingham! - Gillingham! Sing Gillingham! Sing Gillingham! Sing Gill-ing-ham! It's a long, long way up Chatham Hill From the Luton Road Railway Arches To the Jezreels Hose Clip Factory It's a thorny hill to paradise From the High Street Cash Converters To the second hand Medway Motor Dealers And there, my glittering prize - I claim salvation in Upper Gillingham By virgins and apostles attended To banish my tormentor To the wastes of the Pentagon Shopping Centre Sing Gillingham! - Gillingham! Sing Gillingham! Sing Gillingham! Sing Gill-ing-ham! It's a long, long way up Chatham Hill From the Luton Road Railway Arches To the Jezreels Hose Clip Factory It's a thorny hill to paradise From the High Street Cash Converters To the second hand Medway Motor Dealers To view, from dizzying high, the crystal waters of the Medway River And rising from the mists on its verdant bank The towers of the Inland Revenue Together now- You Hindu, Christian, you m**m and Jew! Sing Gillingham! - Gillingham! Sing Gillingham! Sing Gillingham! Sing Gill-ing-ham!