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Down at the landing stage the sign reads 'Havoline' And you buy the diesel there, back in the old routine You pay up your harbour dues and then, from the anchorage All in her weddi...Read Full Lyrics

Burn Again! Must Nicaragua burn again! ? Burn Again! Must Nicaragua burn again! ? When Anastasio fell he was by then the first Somoza To have had Nicaragua like a kingdom along hi...Read Full Lyrics

It's a snow-wind She's felt It blow for sixty years and more. Cora and the snow-wind Like the row-lock and the oar Cutting through these icy waters To find shel...Read Full Lyrics

Looking at the water Through the spaces of an iron-ore train The water eddies round the rushes And Eddies round at my house, insane The breakers in the distance Cut the air like...Read Full Lyrics

Another day, another day with the excluded Under pressure, under-paid, the 'underclass' In all the words there's only this to be concluded There is no mystery, there's no unholy gh...Read Full Lyrics

You're living in a world where all the lambs are "frisky" And private eyes hold hand-guns that are hotter than The whisky that they drink The cops here never miss a hand-out and th...Read Full Lyrics

I grew up with a scorpion behind me Sting in my rib-cage, the moment I drew air Within his means there was nothing he denied me But nothing was all we'd ever share I couldn't be a...Read Full Lyrics

You can spend a cheque in a morning And go hungry the same afternoon. Sometimes the only quarters between you and a rainstorm Are the quarters of the moon. You k...Read Full Lyrics

Their star-light shone bright in the blackout Like the beams of the usherette But when the Big Bear bit deep after Yalta There were those that came to forget They w...Read Full Lyrics

He vaults the counter with a dancer's grace The time for counting-up has just begun They read a history within his face Negotiating with a loaded gun The spring-board quivers and t...Read Full Lyrics