Boilerplate Daniel - The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing

My mate Nathaniel said Boilerplate Daniel

Was found in the foundry

Abandoned aged two

The workers, they raised him

Away from the bosses

They fed him on filings

And watched as he grew

My mate Nathaniel said Boilerplate Daniel

Was burnt in the foundry

Skin blistered and red

The workers, they saved him

But they were not medics

And so they repaired him

With metal instead

Boilerplate Dan

Boilerplate Dan

He’s not a robot he’s a man in a can

Boilerplate Dan

Boilerplate Dan

He’s not a robot he’s a man in a can

My mate Nathaniel said Boilerplate Daniel

Was mute and was deafened

By the foundry’s roar

The worker’s they tried

To keep him inside

But one day he was spied

Through an open door

Boilerplate Dan

Boilerplate Dan

He’s not a robot he’s a man in a can

Boilerplate Dan

Boilerplate Dan

He’s not a robot he’s a man in a can

My mate Nathaniel said the man who saw Daniel

Could not be sure

What he’d stumbled upon

But he had to possess

This wonder of science

This man shaped machine

This automaton

My mate Nathaniel said the man who stole Daniel

Led him down to low water

Where a barge could be found

But poor Daniel was heavy

The jetty collapsed

He fell in the mud

Then he sank

Then he drowned