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What Did The Romans Do For Us?

by John Gill

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My daughter Amy was having trouble engaging grandson Sam (8) with the 'Romans' during home tuition in covid times so I penned this compact little ditty to help him along...feel free to use it yourselves!

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What Did The Romans Do For Us? John Gill

Chorus
Oh what did the Romans do for us?
Let’s find more out about them
Like they gave us loos and the calendars too
Oh where would we be without them?

1. Well they gave us education
And they gave us sanitation
Well the Saxons just used mud and sticks
But the Romans brought cement and bricks

2. They gave us coins to jingle
And nettles that really sting oh!
They gave us the cabbage
They gave us the pea
And they fed poor people in poverty

Repeat chorus

3. Well they gave us streets and pavements
And tenement blocks and flats!
They gave us parks, they gave us paths
And we all came clean in their nice hot baths!

4.They gave us libraries they gave us maps
And wine and glass, clean water and cats
And laws and police, street cleaners too
And the road that runs right by our school!

Repeat chorus

5.Oh they gave us Latin and big long words
And they gave us sport and apples and pears
And they gave us shops where we like to go
Down in Derby (Derventio!)

Last chorus

Oh what did the Romans do for us?
Now we know a little more out about them
Tho’ they’ve been and gone their ideas live on…
Where would we be without them?

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released February 28, 2021
Written, performed & produced by John Gill
Artwork: Sam Kirkland

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John Gill Derby, UK

John first discovered the power of song-writing when he made the school bully cry with a song he wrote about a dying dog. Since then he has amassed an enviable catalogue of songs written for many and varied audiences. There are songs for kids, campfires, colleges & worthy causes. There are songs to make us laugh, think, to make our hearts break or sing. And dance. ... more

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