Billy Bragg

You and I are victims of a love That lost a lot in the translation When I think of all the time that I spent Sitting on the edge of your bed in anticipation Of you giving in and us living in sin A hot day, the smell of hairspray And the sound of a shower runn...

Rome never looks where she treads Always her heavy hooves fall On our stomachs, our hearts and our heads And Rome never hears when we bawl Her sentries pass on - that is all And we gather behind them in hordes And plot to reconquer the Wall With only our tong...

If you ever have to go to Shoeburyness Take the A road, the okay road that's the best Go motorin' on the A13 Well, if you're looking for a thrill that's new Take in Fords, Dartford Tunnel and the river too Go motorin' on the A13 It starts down in Wapping The...

I've always been impressed with a girl Who could sing for her supper and get breakfast as well That's the way I am, heaven help me He said, "We don't like peace camapigners 'round here" As he nailed another one to the wall And that's what gets me in trouble, h...

Crawling round on all fours I was looking for a lover or a just cause But she turned out to be another kind of Judy She took me down to the Cherry Tree She drank me back to puberty But she turned out to be another kind of Judy I was 35 going on 17 I was miss...

As long as you hold me I'll get by As long as you need me I will try not to die I don't want the shame I don't want the blame I don't want the fame anymore If only they'd tell me, tell me why If I could believe them and their lies But I don't want their name...

Standing, standing up for the first time Baby Farouk is here Walking, walking all on his own Baby Farouk draws near Join us now in celebration To each child a generation! Climbing, climbing over the wall Baby Farouk is high Dancing, dancing out in the hall, B...

I would rather not go back to the old house I would rather not go back to the old house Too many memories, bad memories Too many memories there When you cycled by, here begin all my dreams The saddest thing I've ever seen And you never knew how much I really...

I have a letter from her When she worked for the "Woman's Realm" And all the things she promised me She promised herself as well She said, "I want my freedom." And ran off along the beach It's hard to love a girl so near Yet so far out of reach Yet so far out...

I was a miner, I was a docker I was a railway man between the wars I raised a family in times of austerity With sweat at the foundry between the wars I paid the union and as times got harder I looked to the government to help the working man But they brought...

And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the Holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen? And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here Amongst these dark satan...

[Chorus:] I will cross this body of water If you promise you won't try this at home You're where you want to be Where am I, I'm up a tree I had a hurt attack Rolled away, now I'm bouncing back Forgive me for feeling sick I think I just got up too quick Is th...

Crowds gather 'round Kneeling at the feet of common thieves Hungry for the word But God would never speak to such as these Such as these Who offer healing hands and balms And redemption, a few would cross their palms They'll tell your troubles to the Lord For...

I ought to leave enough hot water For your morning bath, but I'd not thought I hate to hear you talk that way But I can't bring myself to say I'm sorry The past is always knocking incessant Trying to break through into the present We have to work to keep it o...

The wheels have come off again And the fault is all mine One day was I thinking We were doing just fine. But it hurts me so to hear you say will you be Better off part, Please don't let my complacent mind Belie my loving heart. You've shot me down again From...

Far between sundown's finish an' midnight's broken toll We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashing As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight...

Blue velvet America Half glimpsed in the headlights between the trees Who punctured the beauty And invited monsters such as these The pig faced boy, the corrupted clown The grotesque figure who never comes into town Something broken, something stained Somethi...

Wondering why you left me After all I've tried to do You know I miss you baby And the children miss you too Tonight we done the dishes Just to keep your memory clear I cooled the hot dishwater With my cold and bitter tears The words which I've just s...

The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting The oranges are piled in their creosote dumps Flying us back to the Mexican border Spend all our money to wade back again Father's own father, he waded that river It took all the money he made in his life My br...

Everyone knows That there's no place like home But I'm just seeking refuge In a world full of storms Washed up on a distant shore Can't go home anymore The natives are hostile Whatever I say The thing they fear most is That I might want to stay By their side...

In the Bible, we are told God gave Moses the... Ten great commandments whisper true truths! But the greatest commandment of all Is in the book of Lucas, cause I recall Do unto others as you would them do unto you! Do unto others as you would them do unto you!...

Sometimes I think about Saturday's child And all about the time We were running wild I've been searching For the dolphins in the sea And sometimes I wonder Do you ever think of me This world may never change The way it's been And all the ways of war Won't ch...

Horses, hounds and humans all sitting on an underground train That fox that lives in the Mile End Road is gonna get chased again Sir Thomas Stanford Raffles and his mate Sir Richard Van Dyke Are following on behind the hunt on a two-stroke motorbike Who would...

My mother was half English And I'm half English too I'm a great big bundle of culture Tied up in the red, white and blue I'm a fine example of your Essex man I'm well familiar with the Hindustan 'Cause my neighbors are half English too My breakfast was half E...

Everybody likes you babe but me I guess that proves how stupid I can be Your father thinks it's swell, your mum hears wedding bells Our friends all say we make a lovely couple we get on so well People say that we're a perfect match They don't realise that the...

Dig in boys for an extended stay Those were final orders to come down that day Waiting to be saved in the Philippines You'll wait forever for the young Marines Now I believe to be here is right But I have to say that I'm scared tonight Crouching in this hole...

Whisper under my breath Say a little prayer Same as I do every time I step into the sun's bright glare I am just a farm boy Lived up on the hill Wanted to get away Now the army pays my bills And I'm just dreaming of the time that I can go home I'm just dream...

Standing, waiting for a man to show Wide eyed, one eye fixed on the floor This waiting's killing me It's getting me down Day in, day out My feet are wearing holes in the ground Darkness warmer than bedroom floor Want some to hold me close forever more I'm a s...

She said "Do these seats fold down" I said "If you pull that handle" All the time she'd been waiting for Something with a little more And all her mates on the new estates Were walking out in confetti and sunshine Her mother read her mail And her Dad was a Pol...

Another day dawns grey, its enough to make me spit But we go on our way, just putting up with it And when I try to make my feelings known to you You sound like you have changed from red to blue You're a father now, you see things in different ways For every p...

He's got the bonhomie of a game show host And his handshake is so limp its like meeting a ghost His apologies are tired cos he uses them a lot His excuses are so lame if they were horses they'd be shot He lies through his teeth with impeccable grammar In the g...

God's footballer hears the voices of angels Above the choir at Molineux God's footballer stands on the doorstep And brings the Good News of the Kingdom to come While the crowd sings 'Rock of Ages' The goals bring weekly wages Yet the glory of the sports pages...

Goodbye to all my friends The time has come for me to go. Goodbye to all the souls who sailed with me so long. The day has come at last The sail strength at the mask This have quickly passed away. Goodbye to all my friends The time has come for me to say Goo...

Shirley It's quite exciting to be sleeping here in this new room Shirley You're my reason to get out of bed before noon Shirley You know when we sat out on the fire escape talking Shirley What did you say about running before we were walking Sometimes when w...

Shirley, it's quite exciting To be sleeping here in this new room. Shirley, you're my reason To get out of bed before noon. Shirley, you know when We were sat on the fire escape talking, Shirley, what did you say About running before we were walking? When we'...

I'll never gonna be the handyman around the house My father warned, So don't be asking me to hang the curtain Right for you because The screwdriver business just gets me confused It takes me half an hour to change a fuse And when I flick the switch, the lights...

Drop-dead gorgeous and the rest Resurrected his interest Clouds so swift, the rain won't lift He'll wait for you when you change your shift He'll go down, he'll drag you on the ground He'll panic you into attack He'll tape your calls and play them back And th...

Help save the youth of America Help save them from themselves Help save the sun-tanned surfer boys And the Californian girls When the lights go out in the rest of the World What do our cousins say They're playing in the sun and having fun, fun, fun Till Daddy...

We meet to die in freedoms cause And raise our voices high. We'll join our hands in union strong To battle or to die. Hold the fort For we are coming, Union men be strong. Side by side keep pressing onward, Victory will come. Look my comrades See the union b...

I walked down from the station 'cause I wanted to see, The kind of things that you might miss from the back of a taxi, There's just no way to tell you what these things mean to me This is home. The place I threw my guts up outside the old wine bar, The junk s...

I can see the kitchen light From the road where I park my bike But it's dark there as it often is these days And the gloomy living room Really needs a dust and a broom But I can't brush your memory away Her father was an admiral In someone else's navy And she...

I ain't got no home, I'm just go round and round Just work when I can get it and roam from town to town The police make it hard for me, no matter where I go I ain't got no home in this world anymore! No I ain't got no home in this world anymore! My brothers a...

You see a rainbow I see a dark cloud You see your new friends And I see a bad crowd I almost killed you Nearly killed you Almost killed you With my love I'll put a gun up to my head If you treat me this way Is it fake, is it real? Are you feeling lucky today...

I dreamed I saw Phil Ochs last night Alive as you and me Says I to Phil "You're ten years dead" "I never died" says he "I never died" says he The music business killed you Phil They ignored the things you said And cast you out when fashions changed Says Phil...

If you want to make the weather Then you have to take the blame. If sometimes dark clouds fill the sky and it starts to rain, Folks complain. And though you'll hate me to To run and hide, Listen to your heart and you'll find me Right by your side, 'Cau...

I don't wanna 'cause any trouble in town I don't want it I just want you to know that I'm around If you need me If you've been left all alone You can just pick up the phone (I won't talk about it) And dial up L-O-V-E (I won't talk about it) Baby you can call o...

When one voice rules the nation Just because they're top of the pile Doesn't mean their vision is the clearest The voices of the people Are falling on deaf ears Our politicians all become careerists They must declare their interests But not their company cars...

Walking out together All along the shore Arm in arm beneath the cliffs that tower above us We hear the breakers roar Here we found each other Here we made our home Took the sea, the sky, the sun, the summertime Made it all our own If you ever leave If you ev...

Digging all day and digging all night To keep my foxhole out of sight Digging into dinner on a plate on my knees The smell of damp webbing in the morning breeze Fear in my stomach, fear in the sky I eat my dinner with a weary eye After all this it won't be the...

Something starts swimming inside of me At the sound of your name And the pressure on my lips I'm falling, falling It must be a river 'Cause it swept me away It must be a river 'Cause it swept me away Something starts swimming inside of me At the sound of you...

It says here that the Unions will never learn It says here that the economy is on the upturn And it says here we should be proud That we are free And our free press reflects our democracy Those braying voices on the right of the House Are echoed down the Stre...

Jane Allen took me by surprise said she heard I was a married man Might have known she'd wanna find out exactly how married I am She took me the wrong way home to get me on my own Jane Allen had a bunch of stuff from the old days she wanted to deal with How c...

I'm so tightly wound intention Feels just like a guitar string Waiting to reveal emotions Touch me and you'll hear me sing! I'm so tired of being wild But there's so much that I have to do Tidy up the place for Monday When she's buried in her dancing shoes!...

We've been waiting so long We've been waiting so long, oh We've been waiting for the sun to rise and shine Shining still to give us the will Can you hear me, the sound of my voice? I am here to tell you I have made my choice I've been listening to what's been...

He was trapped in a haircut he no longer believed in She said "I'm a teacher here. I teach the children." And he wondered to himself there and then the things he could learn from her A great might wonder Think of the names you once called me in anger Remember...

With the money from her accident She bought herself a mobile home So at least she could get some enjoyment Out of being alone No one could say that she was left up on the shelf It's you and me against the World kid she mumbled to herself [Chorus:] When...

I hate the arsehole I become Every time I'm with you You know you've got me on the run But let me make it clear to you It's taken two fools such as we To make love deaf, dumb and blind Now you're upset 'cos I can't read your mind love You're upset Cos I can't...

Blues eyes fighting the grey eyes fighting the tears Armed to the teeth for a war of words Reaching all the years I advanced across a poppy field I saw the gleam as you raised your shield And love screamed down With the sun behind its back Our Fathers were al...

One of them's off her food And the other one's off his head And both of them are off down the boozer To drink a toast To the one that he hates most And she says there are no winners, only losers "Well, if there are no winners Then what is this?" he thinks As...

The love of a woman A fear of the phone A secret message to a happy home I've never been so scared I never knew you cared Love gets dangerous Love gets dangerous There's a fear that comes from being in danger Being in love with a total stranger Putting our f...

I've had bad dreams too many times To think that they don't mean much anymore Good times have gone, left my sad home Friends who once cared don't call back anymore Love has no pride when I call out your name Love has no pride when there's no one to blame But...

It's that summer of the evening Get ready and roll the cassette There's boys outside preaching genocide And trying to think up some sort of threat And the ladies in the cloakroom Take no notice of me I wish myself was back at home But there's nothing safe in w...

Love is a fire that burns Love is a wheel that turns Love is a thunderstorm With rain to wash us dry Love is the leaf at the top of the tree Once love was you and me Once love rained down In a thunderstorm of passion All these things I see Are haunting me I...

Take the M for me and the Y for you Out of family and it all falls through We've got to love each other everyday Instead of hoping it might stay that way Now, I've got friends who are telling me They're living in clover But lose the C for commitment and the L...

I hate you, When I see you on the street, Acting hard, thinking on your feet, Treating me like some piece of meat. I forgive you, the things you do, forgive me too. I love you, But nothing I can say will change, If you admit you feel the same, Did you just a...

The Reverend Mother went and got me a drink She came back and said to me "Well what do you think?" I said "I've made myself a fool For the prettiest girl in school" How can I deal with this hurt I feel inside? I tell it to the mother of the bride I put on my...

I put on my raincoat to make it rain And sure enough the skies opened up again I dreamed of you as I walked to the shops You were dancing with the wallies on Top Of The Pops Once in a while Gennady Gerasimov drops his smile And you can see that his aim's A po...

Mr. Love & Justice Please, tell me what am I to do Everything you told me I found out none of it was true I'm looking for some answers To these problems I face Desertion should mean disgrace So tell me do I have a case And I know that nothing is forever...

It's bad timing and me We find a lot of things out this way And there's you A little black cloud in a dress The temptation To take the precious things we have apart To see how they work Must be resisted for they never fit together again If this is rain let it...

My youngest son came home today his friends marched with him all the way the pipe and drum beat out the time while in his box of polished pine like dead meat on a butcher's tray my youngest son came home today my youngest son was a fine young man with...

When you walk without ease On these very streets where You were raised I had a really bad dream It lasted 20 years, 7 months and 27 days And all of that time I never, I never had no one ever Now, I'm outside your house I'm alone And I'm outside your hous&am...

I was twenty one years when I wrote this song I'm twenty two now, but I won't be for long People ask when will you grow up to be a man But all the girls I loved at school Are already pushing prams I loved you then as I love you still Tho I put you on a pedesta...

Oh Nicaragua Nicaraguita Most beautiful flower of my love Fertilized with the blessed blood of Diriangen Oh Nicaragua you are even sweeter Than the honey from Tamagas But now that you are free Nicaraguita I love you much more But now that you are free Nicarag...

Deep down in the underground Atoms spinning round and round Scientists monitor readings Searching for the Holy Grail The particle or at least the tail Of the one that gives the universe its meaning But what if there's nothing, no big answer to find What if we...

I went out drinking with Thomas Paine He said that all revolutions are not the same They are as different as the cultures That give them birth For no one idea Can solve every problem on Earth So don't expect it all to happen In some prophesied politica...

It's just a northern industrial town The front doors of the houses open into the street There's no room for front gardens, just two-up two-down In a northern industrial town And you can see the green hills 'cross the rooftops And a fresher wind blows past the...

I grew up in a company town And I worked real hard 'til that company closed down They gave my job to another man On half my wages in some foreign land And when I asked how could this be Any good for our economy? I was told nobody cares So long as they make mon...

The policemen broke my door down Dragged me from my bed I asked them what was happening They just ignored the words I said They waved their guns in my face Kept screaming out my name Something terrible had happened And somehow I was to blame O freedom, what...

He answers the phone, So I know you're not alone. I'll find only bad signs If you've let him answer this time. When I return, To find letters that you've burnt. I'll find only bad signs If you have burnt his, not mine. When you go out, I do not doubt, That I...

This street is named for flowers It's barren, hot and gray And shadows wheel on iron heels And move along their way The light that soothes me evening Has cut me clean in two But my blood, it runs with stars And they've fallen over you Now the birds have stop...

In a busy street a man sits down Oblivious to the traffic sounds No chaos, no frenzied shrieking crowd Thank God their silence walking heads bent down Come when they saw us Called it lethargy The treadmill turns There down below their feet Should I pray for...

With my qualifications With my qualifications I could get me a job walking a dog Chopping a log, cleaning a bog With my qualifications With my qualifications I could see myself stacking a shelf As a sales assistant at Do-It -Yourself With my qualifications...

On Raglan Road on an autumn day I saw her first and knew That her dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day rue I saw the danger, yet I walked along the enchanted way And I said, "Let grief be a falling leaf at the dawning of the day." On Grafton...

If I listened long enough to you I'll find a way to believe that it's all true Knowing that you lied Straight-faced while I cried Still I look to find a reason to believe Someone like you Makes it hard to live without Somebody else Someone like you Makes it e...

Alright Alright Alright You say you want a revolution Well, you know We all want to change the world You tell me that it's evolution Well, you know We all want to change the world But when you talk about destruction Don't you know that you can count me out?...

Richard belongs to Jayne And Jayne belongs to yesterday How can I go on When every alpha particle hides a neon nucleus Neil belongs to love And love belongs to no man How can he go on When no-one answers the adverts in his mind? [Chorus:] There will be parti...

I stood before the Judge that day As he refused me bail And I knew that I would spend my time Awaiting trial in jail I said there is no justice As they led me out of the door And the Judge said, "This isn't a court of justice, son This is a court of law." The...

The wind sways the trees and the raindrops on the leaves Tumble down, down my neck in the breeze Yes, it's true I hid out in the shadow of your doubt, And this medal that I wear is not for bravery, I'm afraid And we're both going to have to accept That this...

There are soldiers marching on the common today They were there again this evening They paced up and down like sea birds on the ground Before the storm clouds gathering I must buy whatever tinned food is left on the shelves They are testing the air raid siren...

I've had relations with girls from many nations I've made passes at women of all classes And just because you're gay I won't turn you away If you stick around I'm sure that we can find some common ground [Chorus:] Sexuality - Strong and warm and wild and free...

What is that sound Where is it coming from All around What are you running from Something you don't understand Something you cannot command [Chorus:] That's how I know She's got a new spell Yes, that's how I know That she's got a new spell What's going down...

This old town is filled with sin, it will swallow you in If you've got some money to burn, take it home right away You've got three years to pay, but Satan is waiting his turn This old earthquake's gonna leave me in the poor house It seems like this whole tow...

We sing our songs of freedom And we sing our songs of peace We sing about sweet harmony For to make the fighting cease Let's sing one song for the folks tonight That are sleeping on the streets Come on and sing their souls back home Oh, oh won't you sing alo...

Never saw a meaningful tv advert, I don't think shopping is a metaphor for life Don't waste my time at the gym in the morning, try to keep trim by living my life Wanna feel the wind blowing in my hair, Wanna hear the waves crashing on the beach I'm not seekin...

Do you know what love is? Love is when you willingly Place someone else's priorities Above your own Do you know what lust is? Lust is when you actively Force your own priority On someone else 

Take her little fingers And put 'em to your face And don't forget she said You're looking good And don't forget the next time That you get into a race Beneath it all You're only flesh and blood So fill her up and pick her up And ride into the breeze You're t...

Monday and the afternoon is bearing down on me I'm watching the clock and the clock is watching me Don't have to be cool but you know I am Don't have to be here but you know that I'm a hard worker but I ain't working on a Monday I'm a hard worker but I ain't...

Thinking back now, I suppose you were just stating your views What was it all for For the weather or the Battle of Agincourt And the times that we all hoped would last Like a train they have gone by so fast And though we stood together At the edge of the platf...

All winter long while I was locked in my room Your face at the window and my hair on the floor I was thinking of you All winter long while I was locked in my room Your face at the window and my hair on the floor I was thinking of you But the phone rang all nig...

Sugardaddy took me to wonderland Gave me so many presents I could not stand To see you I really couldn't stand to see you Sugardaddy took me far away On a holiday, I didn't have to pay Just be there All I had to do was be there Sugardaddy comes with his pock...

Here are the photos that I keep Here's the empty bed where I lay my head to sleep I dream about you but my dreams are not come true Till I swallow my pride and get back home to you. I tell myself I'm in the right, That don't keep me warm through another lonel...

Take down the Union Jack, it clashes with the sunset And put it in the attic with the emperors old clothes When did it fall apart? Sometime in the 80s When the Great and the Good gave way to the greedy and the mean Britain isn't cool you know, its really not t...

Well the sun goes down on London town But it never sets on Oxford Street Those well spoken young men and their bouncers Are trying to create a well dressed elite And all on private medicine, tut tut Once inside join the rising tide Of people who are so proud...

Kiss me goodnight and say my prayers Leave the light on at the top of the stairs Tell me the names of the stars up in the sky A tree taps on the window pane That feeling smothers me again Daddy is it true that we all have to die At the top of the stairs Is da...

I'm down, but I'm not out Lord I'm hurting I'm down, but I'm not out But I feel blue You know that I'm down, but I'm not out Lord I'm hurting I'm down, but I'm not out But I feel blue I sold all my vinyl yesterday At a boot sale out on the highway And now my...

What will you do when the war is over, tender comrade When we lay down our weary guns When we return home to our wives and families And look into the eyes of our sons What will you say of the bond we had, tender comrade Will you say that we were brave As the s...

A police car and a screamin' siren Pneumatic drill and ripped-up concrete A baby wailing, a stray dog howling The screech of brakes and lamplight blinking That's entertainment That's entertainment A smash of glass and the rumble of boots An electric train an...

You Thatcherites by name, lend an ear, lend an ear You Thatcherites by name lend an ear You Thatcherites by name, your faults I will proclaim, Your doctrines I must blame, you will hear, you will hear Your doctrines I must blame, you will hear You privatise a...

Well, the fields belong to the farmers And the forests belong to the king These days our pleasures are all behind fences We have to pay for everything So turn around and come on down The beach is free Just turn around and come on down The beach is free Well,...

Strange as it may seem, I once had my football dreams But I was always the last one, the last to get chosen When my classmates picked their teams I guess that was the way it stayed in every game I played Life just tripped me and clattered and kicked me Till y...

The busy girl buys beauty The pretty girl buys style And the simple girl buys What she's told to buy And sees her world Through the brightly lit eyes Of the glossy romance of fashion Where she can learn... Top tips for the gas cook Successful secrets of a sexu...

When one voice rules the nation, Just because she's top of the pile, Doesn't mean her vision is the clearest. And the voices of the people, Are falling on deaf ears, Our politicians all become careerists. They must declare their interests, But not their compa...

Did you believe those things We read in the papers? And never mind that, can you meet me Down at the Time Warp tonight? Oh you look divine That suit would get you into anywhere Tonight I'll be, as you can see The idol of an island far, far away A man of stra...

Did you believe those things We read in the papers? And never mind that, can you meet me Down at the Time Warp tonight? Oh you look divine That suit would get you into anywhere Tonight I'll be, as you can see The idol of an island far, far away A man of stra...

At night the Baby Brotherhood and the Inter City Crew Fill their pockets up with calling cards And paint their faces red white and blue Then they go out seeking different coloured faces And anyone else that they can scare And they salute the foes their fathers...

I wish that I could remember the first moment that we met If only I could remember that sweet moment when we met If I knew then that I Would spend the rest of my life with you I imagine I would have held your gaze a little longer When first our eyes met Did i...

Stand up, all victims of oppression For the tyrants fear your might Don't cling so hard to your possessions For you have nothing, if you have no rights Let racist ignorance be ended For respect makes the empires fall Freedom is merely privilege extended Unless...

Saw some guy on the TV yesterday He's selling poison by the ton "How can you do such a thing?" a woman asked And he replied, "Well, the secret is to hook 'em young Look, I'm not responsible for the lessons children learn I'm just responsible for giving my inv...

Well, I told you once and I told you twice But you never listen to my advice You don't try very hard to please me With what you know it should be easy Well, this could be the last time This could be the last time Maybe the last time I don't know, oh no Well,...

William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll With a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger At a Baltimore hotel society gath'rin'. And the cops were called in and his weapon took from him As they rode him in custody down to the station And booked...

When he drops you off, I will not say Who was that who so quickly drove away... The things you've done and the places you've been When I open the door for you I will not let them in... As long as you come back to me I will never ask For you I will be The man...

Here we are, seeking out the Reds Trying to keep the communists in order Just remember when you're sleeping in your beds They're only two days drive from the Texas border How can a country large as ours Be scared of such a threat Well if they won't work for u...

I understand you needing And wanting is no crime But I can't help feeling That you and your mother are just wasting your time Choosing Saturdays in Summer I dare you to wear white Love is just a moment of giving And marriage is when we admit our parents were...

If you're lonely, I will call - If you're poorly, I will send poetry I love you I am the milkman of human kindness I will leave an extra pint If you're sleeping, I will wait If your bed is wet, I will dry your tears I love you I am the milkman of human kind...

I woke up this morning To find that we have outlived the myth of trust You woke up this morning To the fact we've lost the things We took for granted between us And I grew up in awe of the girl next door And the boy that never cried And I was dreaming of those...

Sometimes when you lose your way to me I think you don't care at all If you don't get here soon I'll tear that clock down from the wall Your family and friends don't understand They treat me so strange The book you said to read Well I have read but noth...

The fear of a daughter can run high In the mind of a father to be For something is growing inside But we don't talk about it, do we? In the long empty passionless night Many times to herself she has prayed That the baby will love her much more Than the big bo...

My friend said she could see no way ahead And I was probably better off without you She said to face up to the fact that you weren't coming back And she could make me happy like you used to But I'm sorry to say I turned her away Knowing everything she said wa...

The people's flag is deepest red It shrouded oft our martyred dead And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold Their hearts' blood dyed to every fold [Chorus:] Then raise the scarlet standard high Beneath its folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and tra...

I'll never forget the first day I met her That September morning was clear and fresh The way she spoke and laughed at my jokes And the way she rubbed herself Against the edge of my desk She became a magic mystery to me And we'd sit together in double History t...

Between Marx and marzipan in the dictionary there was Mary Between the Deep Blue Sea and the Devil that was me If ever anyone could help me with my obsession with The young Suzannah York. it was Mary In my pink pyjamas she asked me for something I gave her th...

When I was young I told my mum I'm going to walk on the Moon someday Armstrong and Aldrin spoke to me From Houston and Cape Kennedy And I watched the Eagle landing On a night when the Moon was full And as it tugged at the tides, I knew deep inside I too could...

Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you Is worth savin' Then you better start swimmin' Or you'll sink like a stone For the times the...

People say I'm the life of the party 'Cause I tell a joke or two Although I might be laughing loud and hearty Deep inside I'm blue So take a good look at my face You'll see my smile looks out of place If you look closer it's easy to trace The tracks of my tea...

A rainy afternoon Spent in the warmest room She lay before me and said Yes it's true that I have seen some naked men As she made for the door Leaving me on the floor I wish I'd done biology For an urge within me wanted to do it then [Chorus:] And here she com...

In 1649 To St. George's Hill A ragged band they called the Diggers Came to show the people's will They defied the landlords They defied the laws They were the dispossessed Reclaiming what was theirs "We come in peace," they said "To dig and sow We come to wo...

There is power in a factory, power in the land Power in the hands of a worker But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand There is power in a Union Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers' blood The mistakes of the bosses we mus...

Somewhere between the midnight And the cold and empty dawn I found myself out walking On the street where I was born And I keep upon a stranger To look me in the face And ask me what I was doing In this god forsaken place I don't need to be forgiven For somet...

Sandra met Raymond at the Race Relations Much to the dismay of her family and friends The love that we have is so important The time that it takes to make a baby Can be the time it takes to make a cup of tea The love that we have is so important He still goe...

Who will come to carry me home? Carry me over the river. Must I face this all on my own? Face the lies and the gulf between us, Face the lies and the gulf between us. Dawn breaks over the squares and the parks, But the sunlight cannot find me. No warmth filte...

Up in the morning and out to school Mother says there'll be no work next year Qualifications once the Golden Rule Are now just pieces of paper Just because you're better than me Doesn't mean I'm lazy Just because you're going forwards Doesn't mean I'm going b...

To the misanthropic misbegotten merchants of gloom Who look into their crystal balls and prophesy our doom Let the death knell chime, its the end of time. Let the cynics put their blinkers on and toast our decline. Don't become demoralized by this chorus of c...

Train took my baby away from me, Tears in my eyes, I could not see. Oh train train, Hurry bring my baby back again. I love that woman,just don'tknow, And now that she's gone I'll miss her so Why train train, Hurry bring my baby back again. Then I got this le...

He's already been inside me And he really didn't say And I really didn't ask him I just hoped and prayed He's already been in side me And I really don't feel well I keep looking in the mirror But it's hard to tell Will he stay by me and take my hand And hold...

I'm going upfield, way up on the hillside I'm going higher than I've ever been before That's where you'll find me, over the horizon Wading in the river, reaching for that other shore I dreamed I saw a tree full of angels, up on Primrose Hill And I flew with t...

Someday boy you'll reap what you've sown You'll catch a cold and you'll be on your own And you will see that what's wrong with me Is wrong with everyone that You want to play your little games on Poetry and flowers pretty words and threats You've gone to the...

It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline But on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying Over luxury's disappointment So he walks over and he's trying To sympathise with her but he thinks th...

I lived in a place called okfuskee And I had a little girl in a holler tree I said, little girl, its plain to see, Aint nobody that can sing like me Aint nobody that can sing like me She said its hard for me to see How one little boy got so ugly Yes, m...

This government had an idea And parliament made it law It seems like it's illegal To fight for the union anymore Which side are you on, boys? Which side are you on? Which side are you on, boys? Which side are you on? We set out to join the picket line For to...

There's a girl sleeping in my bed And I'm singing unwritten songs in my head She provided bittersweet company I confided how much you mean to me And this time It's gonna take a train to pull me through Some brief distraction from your memory Is all that I hope...

On Monday I wished it was Tuesday night So I could wish for the weekend to come On Tuesday I wished that the night would pass So I could call you on the phone Now a man can spend a lot of time Wondering what was on Jack Ruby's mind And time is all I have witho...

There's a chill tonight on the Yarra Winter is creeping in While far away my loved ones Wake up in England's spring And although delights await me All the way to Flinders Street It's that little piece of heaven With which they must compete When The Saints ta...

I'm leaving you, darling And I won't be back I found something better Somewhere down the track But, oh I need you darling, darling 'Cos you've got the power of love You've got the power of love You've got the power in your hands You've got the power to make...

There's a place A place that I go Where I curl in a ball on the floor And no one can know And the fear Wells up inside I'm just falling again Feel I'm falling again And you make me brave Then you make me brave When the dark And all of the doubt Crowds in ar...

As I wait for sleep to drag me under In the evening gloom I sit and wonder The words I should have said to you The things I always meant to do The bad dreams that all came true You woke up my neighbourhood Night after night we would row You woke up my neighbo...

I heard the bell ringing In tower of last desire Crum fumb small beginnings The living world undone Now it hums that is singing Like words out on the wire They don't like surrender Your name on my tongue Grief was my companion It pushed me like a seed Compass...