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Thread #46790   Message #695131
Posted By: Emma B
21-Apr-02 - 07:14 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Manchester Ship Canal
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Manchester Ship Canal
The version in Victoria's Inferno has three extra verses:- one that stresses the age old rivalry between Liverpool and Manchester Alas! too for poor Liverpool, She'd surely go to pot sir, For want of trade, her folks would starve,Her Custom House would rot, sir I'm wrong, they'd not exactly starve, Or want,for it is true, sir They might come down to Manchester; We'd find them work to do, sir, Oh well some things never change