Bright New Day - Barbara Dickson

MRS JOHNSTONE:

Oh bright new day, we’re moving away

We’re starting all over again

Oh bright new day

We’re going away

Where nobody’s heard of our name

Where we can begin again

Feel we can win and then

Live just like livin' should be

Got a new situation

A new destination

And no reputation following me

We’re getting out

We’re moving house

We’re starting all over again

We’re leaving this mess

For our new address

Sixty-five Skelmersdale Lane

The air is so pure

You get drunk just by breathing

And the washing stays clean on the line

Where there’s space for the kids

The garden’s so big

It would take you a week just to reach the far side

Just pack the bags, we’re leaving the rags

The wobbly wardrobe,

Chest of drawers that never close

The two-legged chair, the carpet so bare

You wouldn’t see it if it wasn’t for the holes

Now that we’re movin'

Now that we’re improvin'

Let’s just wash our hands of this lot

For it’s no longer fitting for me to be sitting

On a sofa, I know for a fact, was knocked off

At the weekend a gentleman friend

Might take me dancin' to the local bands

We’ll have a front room

And then if it should happen

That his holiness flies in from Rome

He can sit there with me eating toast, drinking tea

In the sort of surroundings that remind him of home

Oh bright new day,

We’re movin' away

We’re starting all over again

Oh bright new day

We’re goin' away

Where nobody’s heard of our name

Now we can begin again

Feel we can win an' then

Live just like livin' should be

Got a new situation

A new destination

And no repuation following me

CAST:

We’re gettin' out, we’re moving house

We’re goin' away, gettin' out today

We’re movin', movin', movin', movin', movin' house

We’re goin' away

Oh bright new day