Shipyard歌詞

[ti:Shipyard (feat. Jimmy Nail, Br]
[ar:Sting]
[00:00.38]Shipyard - Sting
[00:00.94]Jimmy Nail Brian Johnson & Jo Lawry)
[00:15.54]Ah me name is Jackie White and I'm foreman of the yard
[00:19.67]And ye don't mess with Jackie on this quayside
[00:22.97]Why I'm as hard as iron plate woe betide ye if yr late
[00:27.09]When we have to push the boat out on a spring tide
[00:30.46]Now ye could die and hope for Heaven but ye'd need to work your shift
[00:34.20]And I'd expect ye's all to back us to the hilt
[00:37.69]And if St Peter at his gate were to ask ye why yr late
[00:41.75]Why you'd tell him that ye had to get a ship built
[00:45.37]We built battleships and cruisers for Her Majesty the Queen
[00:49.24]Super tankers for Onassis and all the classes in between
[00:52.67]We built the greatest shipping tonnage that the world has ever seen
[00:57.91]And the only life we've known is in the shipyard
[01:05.21]All the platers and the welders and the boiler making crews
[01:09.08]When they see that bugger finished on the slipway
[01:12.51]All the hardship's soon forgot and we'll cheer as like as not
[01:16.57]And the bairns'll wave their Union Jacks all day
[01:19.56]It's a patriotic scene all that's missing is the Queen
[01:23.87]But she said she couldn't make it of a Tuesday
[01:27.24]Then something wells up here inside and you could take it in yr stride
[01:31.23]But you wonder if you'll see another payday
[01:34.35]For there's a mixture of emotions hatred gratitude and pride
[01:38.41]And you hate yourself for crying but it's difficult to hide
[01:41.78]For there's a sadness in the leavin' and ye worry what's ahead
[01:45.32]And that worry never leaves ye keeps on nagging in yr head
[01:48.94]And so ye pray to God for orders but ye'll worry till yr dead
[01:53.93]Until they bury your remains in the blacksmith's shed
[01:58.73]And the only life ye've known is in the shipyard
[02:03.04]Steel in the stockyard
[02:05.10]Iron in the soul
[02:06.41]We'll conjure up a ship where there used to be a hole
[02:11.22]And I don't know what we'll do if this yard gets sold
[02:15.67]For the only life we've known is in the shipyard
[02:28.02]Ah me name is Tommy Thompson I'm shop steward for the Union
[02:31.83]Me dream is proletarian revolution
[02:35.13]Comrades brothers fellow travellers and others
[02:38.13]Class struggle is the means of dialectic evolution
[02:41.75]Das Kapital's me bible and the ruling class are liable
[02:45.24]And quoting Marx and Engels it's entirely justifiable
[02:48.68]If the workers' revolution here is ever to be viable
[02:55.48]And we become the rightful owners of this shipyard
[02:58.97]So it's a one-day stoppage or an overtime ban
[03:02.09]Or a work to rule for the Five Year Plan
[03:08.21]'Til the means of production are safely in our hands
[03:12.64]And we become the rightful owners of this shipyard
[03:16.38]I'm not saying it won't be hard if the boss hands us me cards
[03:19.75]When they try to close us down like other shipyards
[03:22.64]And if industrial action only helps the competition
[03:26.20]As I've heard the bosses bleating from their usual position
[03:29.70]And I stand accused of anarchy disruption and sedition
[03:36.12]Well ye'll never knock us down you reactionary clowns
[03:40.37]When it's time for occupation of the shipyard
[03:43.74]My name is Peggy White
[03:49.60]And I've nursed ye through your injuries and yr cuts and wounds I've bound
[03:55.41]Busted arms and busted heads
[03:57.96]Broken backs and broken legs
[04:00.84]I'd sooner put ye in a splint than have them put ye in the ground
[04:06.64]And the fumes from all the welding where the poison air is hung
[04:09.88]And the toxic radiation that's been blackening your tongue
[04:12.63]I could give you's all an aspirin while you're coughing up your lungs
[04:20.38]But it's all you'll ever get here in this shipyard
[04:34.42]Ah me name is Davy Harrison I like a drink or two
[04:37.35]You could ask me when it started but I haven't got a clue
[04:40.16]I'm never sad or miserable I'm never ever blue
[04:42.78]And I'll still be up tomorrow for the shipyard
[04:45.96]I drink meself into a stupor and I wake up with two heeds
[04:50.33]And then the missus starts complainin' about all me drunken deeds
[04:55.45]Like when I got the train to Sunderland but found meself in Leeds
[05:01.56]And I had to get up early for the shipyard
[05:05.49]I once gave up the drinking was it 1963
[05:09.55]But it seems as if sobriety was not the thing for me
[05:12.98]It was the worst three hours I ever hope to see
[05:19.03]Steel in the stockyard
[05:20.34]Iron in the soul
[05:21.65]We'll conjure up a ship where there used to be a hole
[05:26.71]And the ship sets sail and the tale gets told
[05:31.26]And the only life I've known is in the shipyard
[05:34.82]Steel in the stockyard
[05:35.57]Iron in the soul
[05:36.57]We'll get the bastard finished and we'll end up on the dole
[05:41.93]And we don't know what we'll do if the yard gets sold
[05:47.74]The only life we've ever known is in the shipyard