《Barrett’s Song》歌词

[00:00:00] Barrett' s Song - Brian D'Arcy James

[00:00:11] She's sparkling clean this new born ship

[00:00:14] But one old thing is clear

[00:00:16] The orders they propose above

[00:00:20] We excuse down here

[00:00:23] We'll watch form here as up above

[00:00:26] They'll catch a whiff of glory

[00:00:30] This wonder ship may be brand new

[00:00:35] But it's the same old story

[00:00:42] Stoke the fire in the hold

[00:00:44] As the men draw back

[00:00:47] Feed the heat in the hold

[00:00:48] As the men draw back

[00:00:49] And the dust of the coal in the air is black

[00:00:51] And a trickle of sweat runs down your back

[00:00:56] And what are the boys from the midlands doing here

[00:01:13] Coal it is that makes the steam

[00:01:15] That runs the machines that run the world

[00:01:16] That sends the men below the ground

[00:01:18] To mine the coal

[00:01:22] Each day

[00:01:28] From leicestershire and nottingham

[00:01:30] Us lads who worked down in the pit

[00:01:32] Knew if you got above the ground

[00:01:34] You'd save your soul

[00:01:37] Some way

[00:01:40] Get out of the pit

[00:01:42] And westward I knew I could run

[00:01:47] And ship out to sea and there my new life was begun

[00:01:54] And the screws are turning at seventy-one

[00:01:58] It became my dream to go out to sea

[00:02:01] Further out from the mine you couldn't be

[00:02:06] But born to the coal there's no place for you elsewhere

[00:02:13] You trade a life of dank and gloom

[00:02:15] To shovel in the boiler room

[00:02:17] But now your seven decks below

[00:02:19] A lady's dainty feet

[00:02:25] And nothing has changed

[00:02:27] There's nothing a miner can do

[00:02:32] The pit and your mates

[00:02:34] Turned into the hold and the crew

[00:02:39] And the screws are turning at seventy-two

[00:02:43] Faster and faster we watch as we gain ever more

[00:02:50] Seventy-three and too soon it is seventy-four

[00:02:57] For a record speed I believe we strive

[00:03:00] For the maiden ship that's too hard to drive

[00:03:04] If you push her faster than seventy-five

[00:03:09] That is the truth

[00:03:14] I swear