On Morecambe Bay-Christy Moore

[ti:On Morecambe Bay] [ar:Christy Moore] [al:Folk Tale] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]On Morecambe Bay - Christy Moore [00:00.02]Written by：Kevin Littlewood [00:00.04] [00:13.89]Out beyond the street lamps where the calliopes roar [00:18.59] [00:20.00]Past the rack and samphire beyond the shore [00:24.87] [00:25.83]I've seen them walking through the tide as rain cuts through the spray [00:31.24] [00:32.33]Chinese cockle-pickers on the sands of Morecambe Bay [00:37.24] [00:39.65]I stood behind them in the corner shop and in the market too [00:44.73] [00:45.94]I should have spoken to them told them everything I knew [00:50.89] [00:52.19]Like our mothers told us as we went out to play [00:56.94] [00:58.18]Never try and race the tide on the sands of Morecambe Bay [01:03.27] [01:05.79]For the tide is The Devil it will run you out of breath [01:10.91] [01:12.43]Race you to the seashore chase you to your death [01:17.20] [01:18.40]The tide is the very Devil and the Devil has its day [01:23.27] [01:24.34]On the lonely cockle banks of Morecambe Bay [01:28.19] [01:30.08]Saw them sending money orders home their hard earned pay [01:35.77] [01:36.84]Tales of crossing borders on the road to Morecambe Bay [01:41.73] [01:43.13]Sleeping in crowded rooms on cold hard floors [01:48.06] [01:49.43]Such dreamless life is not worth dying for [01:54.17] [01:56.43]I see them in the distance laid out in the morning light [02:01.56] [02:03.65]Migrant workers 23 were drowned last night [02:07.61] [02:08.95]Their final phonecalls halfway round the world crossed [02:13.64] [02:14.73]As between the river estuaries they raced the tide and lost [02:19.74] [02:22.48]For the tide is The Devil it will run you our of breath [02:27.35] [02:28.64]Race you to the seashore chase you to your death [02:33.72] [02:34.89]The tides is the very Devil and The Devil has its day [02:39.89] [02:40.81]On the lonely cockle banks of Morecambe Bay [02:44.75] [02:47.11]In Fujian and Zeeland they mourn their next of kin [02:52.08] [02:53.08]Gang masters with snake tattoos call money loans back in [02:58.18] [02:59.36]Broked hearted parents watch their children stow away [03:04.23] [03:05.18]To the lonely cockle banks of Morecambe Bay [03:09.24] [03:20.80]The tide is the very Devil and The Devil has its day [03:25.54] [03:26.70]On the lonely cockle banks of Morecambe Bay