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Thread #167743 Message #4049464
Posted By: cnd
29-Apr-20 - 11:05 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Murphy Can Never Go Home
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Murphy Can Never Go Home
Transcribed from your video. Had a bit of trouble with one word towards the end.
It's a hell of an age, puts a man ill-at-ease Sets his mind in a rage, makes him weak at the knees When he sees things are changing and he's marking time His work-mates all twenty, and he's past his prime And he longs to go back home to Ireland I've heard he's tired of the crack and the living is rough And his twenty one years on the buildings have taught him When you have got nothing then you've had enough
So he sits in the bar and he smokes his cigar And he boasts how he's never alone Ah, but I know he's lying, his big heart is breaking Murphy can never go home
And he reads in the paper of the economic miracles Brought by the Yanks and the men from Japan Building the blocks of the 21st Century What use have they for a laboring man Once hard men were heroes but now they are fools And all the old values, uprooted and gone And when he woke up he found they had changed all the rules Well, there's nothing to do but keep laboring on
So he sits in the bar and he smokes his cigar And he boasts how he's never alone Ah, but I know he's lying, his big heart is breaking Murphy can never go home
And it's a hard, rocky road that first took him to Birmingham Long in the making with no going back He was writing no letters, nor words of his whereabouts No family at all for to help him keep track He can stay here all night in no hurry at all Cause there's nobody waiting but old Father Time And as the last rays of sun, they go down on the Brohm???? A song from his childhood he quietly will rhyme
As he sits in the bar and he smokes his cigar And he boasts how he's never alone Ah, but I know he's lying, his big heart is breaking Murphy can never go home