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Thread #44372 Message #1971010
Posted By: Fliss
17-Feb-07 - 05:23 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Down by the Dockyard (David McWilliams)
Subject: Lyr Add: DOWN BY THE DOCKYARD
I was having a trawl on Mudcat and on Google for info about David McWillams and came across this thread.
I was wondering what happened to him. He got a lot of airtime on Radio Caroline in the late 60s. A time when I was at teacher training college in Canterbury.
Wonder if the person is still looking for the song below!
DOWN BY THE DOCKYARD (An epitaph for Belfast)
down by the dockyard the water's lie still the big cranes like tombstones surround her down by the dockyard the water's lie still dead as the city that bounds her
the old woman wrapped in her long faded shawl in the doorway she waits for tomorrow once there was laughter behind her old walls now just the grey face of sorrow the houses are empty the neighbours all gone the stones are still standing but they're standing alone as the boat bound for Liverpool sings her song the cobble-stones echo the silence
once she stood proud and she held her head high 'til hate came to rule her and men told her lies and father fought son never knowing the gun became master and prejudice ruled a home made for madmen a haven for fools still she's built her own wasteland in her churches and schools dead as the children she's buried
The song I liked was LADY HELEN OF THE LAUGHING EYES.