All Would Envy Lyrics

You see these work boots in my hands, they'll probably fit ye now my son, Take them, they're a gift from me, why don't you try them on? It would do your old man good to see you wal...Read Full Lyrics

This town, this stain on the sunrise Disguised in the mist, this morning. It's 8 AM, a seagull shouts A sailor's warning, this sky. This bend in the river Slows down and delivers ...Read Full Lyrics

They say there's an underground river That none of us can see And it flows through winding tunnels On its way to a tide-less sea And across that sea is an island A paradise we are...Read Full Lyrics

Am I asking for the moon' Is it really so implausible' That you and I could soon Come to some kind of arrangement' I'm not asking for the moon I've always been a realist When it's...Read Full Lyrics

In the streets around here there was nobody tougher than me, I was quick with me fists and fast with me footwork as you can plainly see, But while fighting was useful for getting y...Read Full Lyrics

In 18 hundred and 59, the engineer Brunel, Would build the greatest ship afloat, and rule the ocean's swell. Nineteen thousand tons of steel they used to shape the mighty keel, For...Read Full Lyrics

Good people give ear to me story, Pay attention, and none of your lip, For I've brought you five lads and their daddy, Intending to build ye's a ship. Wallsend is wor habitation, I...Read Full Lyrics

Ah, me name is Jackie White and I'm foreman of the yard, And ye don't mess with Jackie on this quayside. Why I'm as hard as iron plate, woe betide ye if yer late, When we have to p...Read Full Lyrics

Did you ever hear the theory of the universe? Where every time you make a choice, A brand new planet gets created? Did you ever hear that theory? Does it carry any sense? That a c...Read Full Lyrics

Ah, ye've gotta be joking, yr tekkin' the piss, I'd have to be stupid to go on wi' this, I wasn't born yesterday, or even last week, It's someone with sailing experience ye seek? I...Read Full Lyrics