Did you ever try to visualise One million milk bottles on your front step? Would you have a plan what to do with them Maybe make a mountain which you can climb? Maybe crush it up and ship it off To another country out of your mind The Gleaners are right, the Gleaners are wise To use the things everyday folk leave behind The Gleaners are right, the Gleaners have rights All hail the magpie, the second-handers There's something wrong if we provide Enough to live on from the waste we leave behind And by the by, would you recognise The voice of Al Bowly blaring out of a caravan? Defiantly distorted in The morning sunshine across the canal The Gleaners are right, the Gleaners are wise To use the things everyday folk leave behind The Gleaners are right, the Gleaners have rights All hail the magpie, the second-handers There's something wrong if we provide Enough to live on from the waste we leave behind The Gleaners are right The Gleaners are right