Stan Kelly writes; "The werds you give for I WISH differ un peu from what I wrote but no big deal. I'll send you an extra verse anon. I sing I WISH on Ewan MacColl's REVIVAL IN BRITAIN (Folkways)"
CHORUS: I wish I was back in Liverpool. Liverpool town where I was born Where there isn't no trees, no scented breeze no fields of waving corn. But there's lots of girls with peroxide curls And the "black & tan" flows free, With six in a bed by the old Pier head And its Liverpool Town for me.
1; Its seven long years since I wandered away, To sail the wide world o'er, My very first trip in an old tramp ship that was bound for Baltimore. I was seven days sick, and I just couldn't stick All that bobbing up and down, So I told them, jack, to turn right back To dear old Liverpool Town.
2; We dug the Mersey Tunnel , boys, way back in '33 Dug a hole in the ground until we found a 'ole called Wallasey. The foreman cried, "Get on outside; the roof is falling down" And I'm telling you, Jack, we all SWAM back To dear old Liverpool Town .
3; There's every race and colour of face And every kind of name, But the pigeons there in Clayton Square If you walk up Upper Parliament Street, You'll see faces black & brown, And I've even seen them orange & green In dear old Liverpool town,