[00:00:00] Shipyard - Sting (史汀)/Jimmy Nail/Brian Johnson/Jo Lawry [00:00:00] (feat Jimmy Nail Brian Johnson & Jo Lawry) [00:00:15] Ah me name is Jackie White and I'm foreman of the yard [00:00:19] And ye don't mess with Jackie on this quayside [00:00:22] Why I'm as hard as iron plate woe betide ye if yr late [00:00:27] When we have to push the boat out on a spring tide [00:00:30] Now ye could die and hope for Heaven but ye'd need to work your shift [00:00:34] And I'd expect ye's all to back us to the hilt [00:00:37] And if St Peter at his gate were to ask ye why yr late [00:00:41] Why you'd tell him that ye had to get a ship built [00:00:45] We built battleships and cruisers for Her Majesty the Queen [00:00:49] Super tankers for Onassis and all the classes in between [00:00:52] We built the greatest shipping tonnage that the world has ever seen [00:00:57] And the only life we've known is in the shipyard [00:01:05] All the platers and the welders and the boiler making crews [00:01:09] When they see that bugger finished on the slipway [00:01:12] All the hardship's soon forgot and we'll cheer as like as not [00:01:16] And the bairns'll wave their Union Jacks all day [00:01:19] It's a patriotic scene all that's missing is the Queen [00:01:23] But she said she couldn't make it of a Tuesday [00:01:27] Then something wells up here inside and you could take it in yr stride [00:01:31] But you wonder if you'll see another payday [00:01:34] For there's a mixture of emotions hatred gratitude and pride [00:01:38] And you hate yourself for crying but it's difficult to hide [00:01:41] For there's a sadness in the leavin' and ye worry what's ahead [00:01:45] And that worry never leaves ye keeps on nagging in yr head [00:01:48] And so ye pray to God for orders but ye'll worry till yr dead [00:01:53] Until they bury your remains in the blacksmith's shed [00:01:58] And the only life ye've known is in the shipyard [00:02:03] Steel in the stockyard [00:02:05] Iron in the soul [00:02:06] We'll conjure up a ship where there used to be a hole [00:02:11] And I don't know what we'll do if this yard gets sold [00:02:15] For the only life we've known is in the shipyard [00:02:28] Ah me name is Tommy Thompson I'm shop steward for the Union [00:02:31] Me dream is proletarian revolution [00:02:35] Comrades brothers fellow travellers and others [00:02:38] Class struggle is the means of dialectic evolution [00:02:41] Das Kapital's me bible and the ruling class are liable [00:02:45] And quoting Marx and Engels it's entirely justifiable [00:02:48] If the workers' revolution here is ever to be viable [00:02:55] And we become the rightful owners of this shipyard [00:02:58] So it's a one-day stoppage or an overtime ban [00:03:02] Or a work to rule for the Five Year Plan [00:03:08] 'Til the means of production are safely in our hands [00:03:12] And we become the rightful owners of this shipyard [00:03:16] I'm not saying it won't be hard if the boss hands us me cards [00:03:19] When they try to close us down like other shipyards [00:03:22] And if industrial action only helps the competition [00:03:26] As I've heard the bosses bleating from their usual position [00:03:29] And I stand accused of anarchy disruption and sedition [00:03:36] Well ye'll never knock us down you reactionary clowns [00:03:40] When it's time for occupation of the shipyard [00:03:43] My name is Peggy White [00:03:49] And I've nursed ye through your injuries and yr cuts and wounds I've bound [00:03:55] Busted arms and busted heads [00:03:57] Broken backs and broken legs [00:04:00] I'd sooner put ye in a splint than have them put ye in the ground [00:04:06] And the fumes from all the welding where the poison air is hung [00:04:09] And the toxic radiation that's been blackening your tongue [00:04:12] I could give you's all an aspirin while you're coughing up your lungs [00:04:20] But it's all you'll ever get here in this shipyard [00:04:34] Ah me name is Davy Harrison I like a drink or two [00:04:37] You could ask me when it started but I haven't got a clue