Boilerplate Daniel

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
 Chorus:
 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
 Chorus:
 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