《The Lingan Strike》歌词

所属专辑：For a Song

时长： 02:49

We're all the way from Lanarkshire we’re thirty hardy men[00:00:21]

And we've crossed the bold Atlantic to the shores of Cape Breton[00:00:25]

They told us there'd be honest work there's scarce of that at home[00:00:28]

But today we lay our tools down as if that coal was stone[00:00:32]

As if that coal was stone[00:00:36]

For Lingan we were headed boys and thought we had it made[00:00:41]

A rich seam lay in waiting for our skilled and eager trade[00:00:45]

But just before we landed well the story it came 'round[00:00:49]

That a hundred solid local men would not go underground[00:00:52]

Would not go underground[00:00:56]

And here we are but poor men three thousand miles we've gone[00:01:00]

But we can see as clear as day the right man from the wrong[00:01:03]

The right man from the wrong[00:01:07]

The tale was too familiar-we'd been through the same at home[00:01:12]

Where a man could labour years and still be cast out on his own[00:01:16]

If ever he should fall sick or be injured in the mine[00:01:20]

It's as if he'd never given of his breath or of his time[00:01:24]

His breath or of his time[00:01:27]

And here we are but poor men three thousand miles we've gone[00:01:31]

But we can see as clear as day the right man from the wrong[00:01:34]

The right man from the wrong[00:01:38]

We'd rather make it empty-handed back across the sea[00:02:01]

Than rob our Gaelic brothers in their fight for dignity[00:02:05]

They say a hungry belly can cloud a man's resolve[00:02:09]

But sharp as tacks we saw our brothers' backs against the wall[00:02:13]

Their backs against the wall[00:02:17]

And here we are but poor men three thousand miles we've gone[00:02:20]

But we can see as clear as day the right man from the wrong[00:02:24]

The right man from the wrong[00:02:27]

Yes here we are but poor men three thousand miles and oh[00:02:30]

We can see as clear as day how close we are to home[00:02:34]

How close we are to home[00:02:38]

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