Ballad of the Great Eastern 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

Me first day in the shipyard, the gaffer says to me, "I want ye to go to the store lad and get a few things, ye see? Now here's a list, can ye read lad? Can ye read it back to me? ...Read Full Lyrics

Show some respect on this deck for the dear departed, Gather ye's round let's be bound by the work we started, Save all your strength for the length of the task before us, Think on...Read Full Lyrics

Any shipyard man can sing when he works upon the hull,Amongst the noise and the clamour that he all but disregards,So he'll sing to himself and no one pays him any mind,He's just a...Read Full Lyrics

Ye promised me my Jackie,On the day that we got married,Ye'd build a boat of dreams for me someday.A vague romantic notion,That we'd sail off to some ocean,But in my dreams we'd ge...Read Full Lyrics

I can be what you want me to beI can act how you need me to actI am caught by the space in betweenWords you've not spokenThe words you've not spokenTogether we're goldenEverything'...Read Full Lyrics

Whatever you wantWhatever you needingWhatever you feelI'll bring it all back aroundI promise you thisI promise I'm bleedingTake it easy on me nowTake it easy on me nowI only wish f...Read Full Lyrics