There is no lyric sheet with the CD. However, my friend Phil Beck in Perth has made a transcription. Here is what he hears - corrections are welcomed: BY IBROX PARK Driving down by Ibrox Park One grey November afternoon Where concrete tower blocks grim and dark defy the sun and the moon I saw a host of working men make their way decked in Empire blue And I thought about when it all began in 1822 Chorus: Bang the drum and wave the flag Let them know who's king of the pile of slag Though poverty sits at our door With dour Jock like some ill throckett dog We'll make it cower in the golden hour When we go marching around the bog Carried back in a waking dream I heard the strains of a reform song From our past thick as clotted cream I saw them marching strong Workers bent on liberty circled round by the Orange crew Drunk with hatred and bigotry And the old red white and blue Chorus Snail pace slow through the human sea I inched my way past the football stand With half my mind lost to reverie on days gone far from hand To Goven Streets 1831 The Duke of Gordon he paid the fee And hired thugs from the Orange clan Made reformers blood run free Chorus Driving down by the Ibrox Park A wave of sadness it drenched my soul From concrete tower blocks grim and dark Come sights I cannae thole ['thole' means 'stand or bear'] In childhood's dreams I've scaled the wall Well skeined by empires to call us back And my hair thin falls watching Cowan's braw And by the Union Jack Final chorus: Scorn the drum and burn the flag Tell them what to do with their pile of slag Nae more we'll slumber in poverty Or feed our bairns towards ill throckett dog Let masters cower in the golden hour When we come marching out frae the bog When we come marching out frae the bog --Stewie.
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