The Gleaners

Did you ever try to visualise
One million milk bottles on your front step?
Would you have a plan what to do with them
Maybe make a mountain which you can climb?
Maybe crush it up and ship it off
To another country out of your mind
The Gleaners are right, the Gleaners are wise
To use the things everyday folk leave behind
The Gleaners are right, the Gleaners have rights
All hail the magpie, the second-handers
There’s something wrong if we provide
Enough to live on from the waste we leave behind
And by the by, would you recognise
The voice of Al Bowly blaring out of a caravan?
Defiantly distorted in
The morning sunshine across the canal
The Gleaners are right, the Gleaners are wise
To use the things everyday folk leave behind
The Gleaners are right, the Gleaners have rights
All hail the magpie, the second-handers
There’s something wrong if we provide
Enough to live on from the waste we leave behind
The Gleaners are right
The Gleaners are right