Macdonough's Song Lyrics

By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they...Read Full Lyrics

If you stop to find out what your wages will be And how they will clothe and feed you, Willie, my son, don't you go on the Sea. For the Sea will never need you. If you ask fo...Read Full Lyrics

You call yourself a man, For all you used to swear, An' leave me, as you can, My certain shame to bear? I 'ear! You do not care -- You done the worst you know. I 'ate you, gr...Read Full Lyrics

Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream, An', taught by time, I tak' it so -- exceptin' always Steam. From coupler-flange to spindle-guide I see Thy Hand, O G...Read Full Lyrics

'The eradication of memories of the Great War. -SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT ORGAN The Socialist Government speaks: THOUGH all the Dead were all forgot And razed were every tomb, T...Read Full Lyrics

Dawn off the Foreland -- the young flood making Jumbled and short and steep -- Black in the hollows and bright where it's breaking -- Awkward water to sweep. "Mines reported in...Read Full Lyrics

I There runs a road by Merrow Down-- A grassy track to-day it is-- An hour out Guildford town, Above the river Wey it is. Here, when they heard the hors-bells ring, The a...Read Full Lyrics

They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young, The eager and whole-hearted whom we gave: But the men who left them thriftily to die in their own dung, Shall they come wit...Read Full Lyrics

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were drowned i...Read Full Lyrics

Now Chil the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free-- The herds are shut in byre and hut, For loosed till dawn are we. This is the hour of pride and power, Tal...Read Full Lyrics