《Yesterday’s Men》歌词

[00:00:00] Yesterday's Men - Celtic Thunder

[00:00:07] Twas joey the weasel that gave us the wire

[00:00:11] They were closing our factory down

[00:00:14] Though we didn't believe him and we called him a liar

[00:00:18] The redundancy letters came round

[00:00:22] As we read them in silence

[00:00:24] I choked back a tear

[00:00:26] It was hard to believe after twenty-odd years

[00:00:32] Farewell my companions my friends and my workmates

[00:00:35] Farewell to the paydays the pints and the craic

[00:00:39] Oh we gave them our best years now

[00:00:41] They've paid us back

[00:00:43] By making us yesterday's men

[00:00:45] Sure as hell

[00:00:47] By making us yesterday's men

[00:00:52] So we said our goodbyes by the factory gates

[00:00:56] One cold friday evening last year

[00:01:00] And I saw it all there in the eyes of ma mates

[00:01:04] The anger the sadness the fear

[00:01:07] Like our fathers before us we worked there with pride

[00:01:11] Now we fought back the bitterness burning inside

[00:01:17] Farewell my companions my friends and my workmates

[00:01:21] Farewell to the paydays the pints and the craic

[00:01:25] Oh we gave them our best years now they've paid us back

[00:01:28] By making us yesterday's men

[00:01:31] Sure as hell

[00:01:32] By making us yesterday's men

[00:01:38] Ah now jimmy said she

[00:01:40] Give the kids a few bob

[00:01:41] After all sure it is friday night

[00:01:45] But how could I tell her I was out of a job

[00:01:49] From now on things were going to be tight

[00:01:53] How well I remember it cut like a knife

[00:01:57] I was never a day on the dole in my life

[00:02:03] Farewell my companions my friends and my workmates

[00:02:06] Farewell to the paydays the pints and the craic

[00:02:10] Oh we gave them our best years now they've paid us back

[00:02:14] By making us yesterday's men

[00:02:16] Sure as hell

[00:02:18] By making us yesterday's men

[00:02:23] The machines now are silent the workbenches bare

[00:02:27] And there's dust on the factory floor

[00:02:31] They've boarded the windows and have chained up the gates

[00:02:35] And have padlocked the factory door

[00:02:38] Now I'm on the scrap-heap and I'm thirty-nine

[00:02:42] Just one of the hundreds shot down in my prime

[00:02:48] Farewell my companions my friends and my workmates

[00:02:52] Farewell to the paydays the pints and the craic

[00:02:56] Oh we gave them our best years now they've paid us back

[00:02:59] By making us yesterday's men

[00:03:02] Sure as hell

[00:03:03] By making us yesterday's men

[00:03:07] Farewell my companions my friends and my workmates

[00:03:11] Farewell to the paydays the pints and the craic

[00:03:14] Oh we gave them our best years now they've paid us back

[00:03:18] By making us yesterday's men

[00:03:21] Sure as hell

[00:03:22] By making us yesterday's men