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Thread #27303 Message #764656
Posted By: Susanne (skw)
13-Aug-02 - 05:00 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Leeds a Seaport Town
Subject: Lyr Add: LEEDS - A SEAPORT TOWN (Anon / Jon Raven)
This is the best I can do - the lyrics are not easy to understand, so corrections are welcome (doubtful expressions indicated in bold):
LEEDS - A SEAPORT TOWN (Anon / Jon Raven)
Chorus: Thus't'll be, I'll bet you a crown When Leeds becomes a seaport town
Oh dear oh dear this a curious age is Alteration all the rage is Young and old in the stream are moving All in the general cry, Improving! From the exhibition I brought news down They're going to make it a seaport town Instead of factories and retailers Nothing you'll see but ships and sailors
All over the town there'll be boats and barges Men o' war, ships that never so large is Steamers backwards and forwards a-towing You ride for nothing - they pay you for going Old sailors swearin' spars a-batter And, Heave ya ho and handsparks' patter And strange sails crowding every day Sailing and anchoring in Leeds Bay
Oh the Liverpool gents they'll all be undone Here there will be nought but fun done Pats of wilder ? running their rigs, sir Landing their butter, their bullocks and their pigs, sir And then, to make us merry and frisky Mealy potatoes and barrels of whisky New-laid eggs, a twelvemonth taken And old maids with money as crusty as bacon
Within short time you'll have trade enough, sirs All over the world you'll send your stuff, sirs Goods from every prime and nation All come here for embarkation Machinery and cloth and coals and carrots And in return they'll get cold parrots Dragoons, racoons and Spanish donkeys Chase cockatoos and ringtailed monkeys