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Thread #24956 Message #289355
Posted By: Joan from Wigan
01-Sep-00 - 01:25 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD Back Buchanan Street (H & G Dison)
Subject: Lyr Add: BACK BUCHANAN STREET (H & G Dison)
Words from "Songs for Singing Folk" (The Jacqui and Bridie Song Book):
BACK BUCHANAN STREET
(words and music by Harry and Gordon Dison)
A fella from the council
Who's just left planning school
Has told us that we're bein'moved
Right out of Liverpool
Chorus:
They're sending us to Kirkby
Or Skelmersdale or Speke
Don't want to go from all we know
In Back Buchanan Street
We'll miss a lot of little things
Like puttin' out the cat
For there's no back door on the fourteenth floor
Of a "Unit-Camus" flat
We'll miss the fog horns on the river
And we'll miss the ole' Pierhead
An' the short cuts through the jiggers
When we're rollin' home to bed
We'll miss the pub round the corner
With the parlour painted red
Just like we miss the Green Goddesses
And the Overhead
From Walton to the Dingle
You'll hear the same old cry
Stop messin' round with Liverpool
At least until we die
We'll miss the Mary Ellens
And me dad'll miss the docks
And me gran'll miss the washhouse
Where she washed me grandad's socks
They've pulled down Paddy's Market
Where me ma once had a stall
And soon their picks and shovels
Will be through our backyard wall
Pronunciation Guide: Kirkby is pronounced "Kir'bee" and Skelmersdale is pronounced "Ske'mersdale".
Joan