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Underneath the Arches

According to a television programme broadcast in 1957, Bud Flanagan said that he wrote the song in Derby in 1927, and first performed it a week later at the Pier Pavilion, Southport. It refers to the arches of Derby's Friargate Railway Bridge and to the cobbled street where homeless men slept during the Great Depression.

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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underneath_the_Arches_(song)

The Ritz we never signed for
Savoys they can keep
There's only one place that we know
And that is where we sleep

Underneath the arches
We dream our dreams away (bon-bon-bo-da-be-do)
Underneath the arches (bon-bon-bo-di-da-bo)
On cobblestones we lay (bon-dan-bo-bo-ba-bo)
Back to back we're sleeping (bo-di-ba-bo-bo-bo-di-do)
Tired out and worn (bon-bo-do-bo-bo-di-do)
Sorry when the daylight comes creeping
Heralding the dawn

Sleeping when it's raining
And sleeping when it's fine
Trains rattling by above (bon-bo-bo-da-bi-da-bo)
Pavement is our pillow
Without a sheet we'll lay
Underneath the arches
We dream our dreams away

Edited by Elwood P Dowd
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