Yesterday's Men-Celtic Thunder

[ti:Yesterday's Men] [ar:Celtic Thunder] [al:Heritage] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.29]Yesterday's Men - Celtic Thunder [00:01.57] [00:07.40]Twas joey the weasel that gave us the wire [00:11.19]They were closing our factory down [00:13.74] [00:14.83]Though we didn't believe him and we called him a liar [00:18.80]The redundancy letters came round [00:21.48] [00:22.36]As we read them in silence [00:24.44]I choked back a tear [00:26.31]It was hard to believe after twenty-odd years [00:31.38] [00:32.08]Farewell my companions my friends and my workmates [00:35.85]Farewell to the paydays the pints and the craic [00:39.49]Oh we gave them our best years now [00:41.91]They've paid us back [00:43.45]By making us yesterday's men [00:45.83]Sure as hell [00:47.26]By making us yesterday's men [00:50.28] [00:52.83]So we said our goodbyes by the factory gates [00:56.58]One cold friday evening last year [00:59.38] [01:00.29]And I saw it all there in the eyes of ma mates [01:04.40]The anger the sadness the fear [01:06.98] [01:07.83]Like our fathers before us we worked there with pride [01:11.94]Now we fought back the bitterness burning inside [01:16.39] [01:17.69]Farewell my companions my friends and my workmates [01:21.34]Farewell to the paydays the pints and the craic [01:25.21]Oh we gave them our best years now they've paid us back [01:28.87]By making us yesterday's men [01:31.40]Sure as hell [01:32.73]By making us yesterday's men [01:35.85] [01:38.25]Ah now jimmy said she [01:40.17]Give the kids a few bob [01:41.96]After all sure it is friday night [01:44.69] [01:45.94]But how could I tell her I was out of a job [01:49.47]From now on things were going to be tight [01:52.37] [01:53.37]How well I remember it cut like a knife [01:57.40]I was never a day on the dole in my life [02:01.86] [02:03.11]Farewell my companions my friends and my workmates [02:06.74]Farewell to the paydays the pints and the craic [02:10.54]Oh we gave them our best years now they've paid us back [02:14.35]By making us yesterday's men [02:16.91]Sure as hell [02:18.25]By making us yesterday's men [02:21.25] [02:23.94]The machines now are silent the workbenches bare [02:27.62]And there's dust on the factory floor [02:30.28] [02:31.40]They've boarded the windows and have chained up the gates [02:35.19]And have padlocked the factory door [02:37.66] [02:38.85]Now I'm on the scrap-heap and I'm thirty-nine [02:42.91]Just one of the hundreds shot down in my prime [02:47.55] [02:48.49]Farewell my companions my friends and my workmates [02:52.37]Farewell to the paydays the pints and the craic [02:56.05]Oh we gave them our best years now they've paid us back [02:59.67]By making us yesterday's men [03:02.38]Sure as hell [03:03.71]By making us yesterday's men [03:06.77] [03:07.40]Farewell my companions my friends and my workmates [03:11.23]Farewell to the paydays the pints and the craic [03:14.95]Oh we gave them our best years now they've paid us back [03:18.80]By making us yesterday's men [03:21.25]Sure as hell [03:22.67]By making us yesterday's men