Trumptonshire Tunes: The Army Truck (Driving Along)

CAMBERWICK GREEN is a small, picturesque village in Trumptonshire. Each week the villagers undergo such domestic crises as a shortage of flour; a swarm of bees; a water shortage; and rumours of an unwanted electrical sub-station being built in the village. At the end of each episode the narrator bids farewell to the puppet character who was seen at the beginning, and the latter disappears back into the musical box.
The series was written and produced by Gordon Murray in 1966. Music was by Freddie Phillips, and narration and song vocals were provided by Brian Cant.
The Driving Along tune was used whenever there was a journey between locations, occassionally as an instrumental, but usually with appropriate lyrics. This is the army truck version.

[@portcullis5622]

Fifty years later, the villages of Trumpton, Chigley and Camberwick Green are now part of the same town. There has been so much infill development and the giant Trumpton Business Park on the green belt, that when I drive through, I can't tell where the three former villages begin and end. A lot of empty shops in the centre too. Just charity shops, bookmakers, one Weatherspoon's, a Costa and a few greasy spoon cafes. So sad what has happened to English towns and villages.

[@sugarbertie1143]

How right you are! LOL.Take me back.😂

[@joemarr4739]

This comment deserves more appreciation 😂

[@markbenjamin1703]

Don't forget th dodgy Turkish Barbershop, an American Candy shop and a Kebab shop

[@portcullis5622]

@@PlasticGeordie We won't even mention what happened to Camberwick Green's Post Office.

[@goldsgolds2010]

Lovely, lovely memories of childhood, in a country that really doesn't exist anymore in the way we used to know it

[@tonycavanagh1929]

When I was in the Army back of a bedford we would sing this

[@desmos-jw1bh]

I was just telling my mum i used to sing this in the back of an Australian army truck funny what you remember from your childhood

[@tonycavanagh1929]

@@desmos-jw1bh Its pretty apt though, I mean you are in the back of a army truck :)

[@milkywhite2939]

😂😂😂 quality 😂 was it a TK ?

[@goldsgolds2010]

Thanks for putting this on 💯🙏❤️🇬🇧

[@mark-shane]

i can really imagine soldiers singing this 'Driving along in an army truck in a rumpity bumpity army truck"

[@andrewlloyd4702]

Brian Cant and Co made it so special!

[@evilrobottolhurst]

Civilians in modern-day Britain increasingly appreciate this too.
If I was asked to sing a song where each line of the chorus rhymed with "truck" - and it was for children - I would have enormous difficulty.
It must be a skill you acquire if you are called Cant.

[@crazyleyland5106]

Luck, duck, buck, muck, cluck. And I have a Viz reader's sense of humour, and I thought of all these non rude words on the spot.

[@davidparsons452]

Sang this many a time in the back of a 4 tonner baor 1986 - 1990

[@AJM-timecop]

My dad & I would sing this together. Good days.

[@loishastings9098]

Aged 61 and I still remember all the words

[@mag0151]

Brilliant - I love this song!

[@zippy5131]

Awsome totally remember this, but you only appreciate it when you've been in the millitary.

[@Martyn2473]

Their currently on tour in Afghanistan stay safe boys

[@stu8642]

I think they had to leave their truck behind during the humpity bumpity evacuation of Kabul.

[@messenger8279]

Loved Trumpton. I seem to remember the words as. Riding along in an army truck, in an I can do anything army truck. :-)

[@SarahJaneOmega]

If you remember, there was more than one version of the driving song. At least two other characters (Mickey Murphy the baker and Farmer Bell. I’m sure there were others, but those are the only two that come to mind) had their own versions. You could be mixing it up with Farmer Bells driving song. 🎶Driving along in a farmer’s truck, in an I can Do Anything farmer’s truck. A pig or a hen, a calf or the men, a bale or a sack all go into the back. You can even spread muck from a farmer’s truck, an I can Do Anything farmer’s truck🎶

[@timothyghost8899]

🎵Driving along in an army truck 🎵

[@DarkShroom]

and i love my rumpty bumpty army truck
cos every day i like to truck
up and down on my rumpty bumpty army truck
people may laugh but they've never had a truck
like a rumpty bumpty army truck!

[@mh12347]

This song is mentioned in James May's Cars of people.

[@SnabbKassa]

They'll never be stuck. More than I can say for some armies! (2022)

[@redcalx9568]

high, glad to be aboard

[@markwhittingham7626]

Great programme and songs! Visited Brazil a few years ago. Our 'day out' was just like this! Wonder what came to mind......?

[@martintunnicliffe8934]

If I'd been one of the "soldier boys" I'd have been sick over the soldier boy opposite. (I never could sit sideways on in a vehicle without needing to vomit.)

[@gamechanger416]

Hi there 😊👋

[@Station_Master_13]

I know its been 8 years and you may never see this but could you do Mr rumpling's song some time

[@Rob-uv8bu]

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[@cartoonhead9222]

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