Songs about Buliders, Building etc
Songs about Buliders, Building etc
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Downton Mini

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1,026 posts

193 months

Monday 28th May 2012
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Hi

Please don't think I've completely lost it but I am looking for songs about Builders, Building etc. My brother and myself take part in a charity event every August bank holiday every year and every year we dress up ion fancy dress and also decorate the Mini to match the theme (as do most of the other people on the event were not the only ones who are mad) this year our theme is builders and we want some music to play while travelling along the route.

Has anyone got any ideas

Many thanks in adavance

Mark

Right heres what I've come up with so far

If I had a hammer
We Built This City
Knock on Wood
Another Brick in the Wall
Bob the Builder
Right Said Fred (havea another cup of tea)
The JCB Song (Ok a little off builders but close)
Talking Heads - More Songs about Buildings and Food
"hole in the ground"
"the gas man came to call"
The theme tune to 'Aufedersein Pet'
ZZ Top - concrete & steel
Love → Building on Fire,
Housemartins - Build
A half built house - We were promised jet packs
Dig your own hole - Chemical brothers
The Sicknote by the Dubliners
Tracie - The House That Jack Built
Unit Four Plus Two - Concrete and Clay
The Arlarm Unsafe Building


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Lost_BMW

12,955 posts

205 months

Monday 28th May 2012
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"Bob the Builder"?





"Yes we can!"

Downton Mini

Original Poster:

1,026 posts

193 months

Monday 28th May 2012
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Erm thanks I think lol

Right heres what I've come up with so far

If I had a hammer
We Built This City
Knock on Wood
Another Brick in the Wall
Bob the Builder

CoolC

4,493 posts

243 months

Monday 28th May 2012
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Not strictly about builders, but what they do best - drinking tea smile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5XX9LX2es4

Downton Mini

Original Poster:

1,026 posts

193 months

Monday 28th May 2012
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CoolC said:
Not strictly about builders, but what they do best - drinking tea smile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5XX9LX2es4
Brilliant I've been trying to think what that song was called thnak you

crofty1984

17,064 posts

233 months

Monday 28th May 2012
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Seconded on Right Said Fred.
Quite the tale of derring-do!
From what I understand, even after removing the fings wot old the candles, they were still unable to meet the project objectives and had to investigate alternative solutions.

lockhart flawse

2,101 posts

264 months

Monday 28th May 2012
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Talking Heads - More Songs about Buildings and Food


L.F.

Liszt

4,337 posts

299 months

Monday 28th May 2012
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Another Bernard Cribbens special "hole in the ground"

Also, "the gas man came to call"

hidetheelephants

35,708 posts

222 months

Monday 28th May 2012
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The theme tune to 'Aufedersein Pet'?

Pixel Pusher

10,404 posts

188 months

Monday 28th May 2012
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ZZ Top - concrete & steel

jet_noise

6,076 posts

211 months

Tuesday 29th May 2012
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Dear DM,

lockhart flawse said:
Talking Heads - More Songs about Buildings and Food


L.F.
The precursor to the above:
Love → Building on Fire

ETA Doh! In your list already, I blame the 6 sigma training in which I responded smile

regards,
Jet

Edited by jet_noise on Tuesday 29th May 18:27

Hugo a Gogo

23,437 posts

262 months

Tuesday 29th May 2012
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Housemartins - Build

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXoeM7myXCI

Clambering men in big bad boots
Dug up my den, dug up my roots
Treated us like plasticine town
They built us up and knocked us down

From Meccano to Legoland
Here they come with a brick in their hand
Men with heads filled up with sand
It's build

It's build a house where we can stay
Add a new bit everyday
It's build a road for us to cross
Build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots

Whistling men in yellow vans
They came and drew us diagrams
Showed us how it all worked it out
And wrote it down in case of doubt

Slow, slow, quick, quick, quick
It's wall to wall and brick to brick
They work so fast it makes you sick
It's build

It's build a house where we can stay
Add a new bit everyday
It's build a road for us to cross
Build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots

It's build

Down with sticks and up with bricks
In with boots and up with roots
It's in with suits and new recruits
It's build

Downton Mini

Original Poster:

1,026 posts

193 months

Tuesday 29th May 2012
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Thanks for all the suggestions so far guys keep them coming

realjv

1,193 posts

195 months

Tuesday 29th May 2012
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A half built house - We were promised jet packs
Brick - Ben Folds Five - although its got nothing to do with building other than the title.
Dig your own hole - Chemical brothers

barmonkey

652 posts

206 months

Tuesday 29th May 2012
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx7aoEBtPXA

The Sicknote by the Dubliners

GWC

4,432 posts

224 months

Tuesday 29th May 2012
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Loadsamoney - Doin' up the house.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2byKBtXK0jI&fea...

wildone63

1,046 posts

240 months

Tuesday 29th May 2012
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Tracie - The House That Jack Built
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hQqzp46Uw8
and
Unit Four Plus Two - Concrete and Clay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggoAQQOYSms

Downton Mini

Original Poster:

1,026 posts

193 months

Thursday 5th July 2012
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The list is growing nicely will start trying to find the songs now!

spiritof'76

1,424 posts

253 months

Friday 6th July 2012
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Not really about bricks and mortar as such...... but hey ! wink

.....and i've no idea what the fish is all about either laugh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwXErsuXDaM

gazza285

11,111 posts

237 months

Friday 6th July 2012
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An obscure one.

Frogs Of War - Short Cut.