《Shipyard》歌词

[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

[00:04:40] I'm never sad or miserable I'm never ever blue

[00:04:42] And I'll still be up tomorrow for the shipyard

[00:04:45] I drink meself into a stupor and I wake up with two heeds

[00:04:50] And then the missus starts complainin' about all me drunken deeds

[00:04:55] Like when I got the train to Sunderland but found meself in Leeds

[00:05:01] And I had to get up early for the shipyard

[00:05:05] I once gave up the drinking was it 1963

[00:05:09] But it seems as if sobriety was not the thing for me

[00:05:12] It was the worst three hours I ever hope to see

[00:05:19] Steel in the stockyard

[00:05:20] Iron in the soul

[00:05:21] We'll conjure up a ship where there used to be a hole

[00:05:26] And the ship sets sail and the tale gets told

[00:05:31] And the only life I've known is in the shipyard

[00:05:34] Steel in the stockyard

[00:05:35] Iron in the soul

[00:05:36] We'll get the bastard finished and we'll end up on the dole

[00:05:41] And we don't know what we'll do if the yard gets sold

[00:05:47] The only life we've ever known is in the shipyard