I Wish I Were Back In Liverpool-The Dubliners

[ti:I Wish I Were Back In Liverpool] [ar:The Dubliners] [al:The Essential Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Wish I Were Back In Liverpool - The Dubliners [00:03.86]I wish I was back in Liverpool [00:07.11] [00:09.75]Liverpool town where I was born [00:12.28] [00:16.61]Where there ain't no trees no scent [00:19.37] [00:20.20]Of grease no field's of waving corn [00:22.78] [00:23.30]But there's lots of girls with peroxide [00:25.67]Curls and the black and tan flows free [00:27.77] [00:30.09]There's six in a bed by the old pier head [00:33.29]And it's Liverpool town for me [00:35.43] [00:38.63]'Tis seven long years since I wandered [00:41.12] [00:41.76]Away to sail the wild world o'er [00:46.13] [00:49.08]Me very first trip on an old steam ship [00:52.66]That was bound for Baltimore [00:54.47] [00:56.29]I was seven days sick and I just couldn't [00:59.27] [01:00.48]Stick that bobbin' up and down [01:02.61] [01:04.52]So I told them Jack you'd better turn [01:07.19] [01:08.10]Back for dear old Liverpool town [01:10.32] [01:12.41]I wish I was back in Liverpool [01:15.90] [01:18.11]Liverpool town where I was born [01:21.69] [01:25.05]Where there ain't no trees no scent of grease [01:27.94] [01:28.68]No field's of waving corn [01:30.58] [01:31.84]But there's lots of girls with peroxide curls [01:34.30] [01:35.13]And the black and tan flows free [01:37.05] [01:38.83]There's six in a bed by the old pier head [01:42.05]And it's Liverpool town for me [01:44.73] [01:47.52]We dug the Mersey tunnel boys [01:49.43] [01:50.60]Way back in thirty-three [01:53.05] [01:55.09]Dug an hole in the ground until [01:57.48] [01:58.54]We found an hold called Wallasey [02:00.57] [02:01.82]Then the foreman cried Come on [02:04.35] [02:05.22]Outside The roof is fallin' down [02:07.28] [02:09.33]While I'm tellin' you Jack we all swum [02:12.20] [02:12.76]Back to dear old Liverpool town [02:14.93] [02:16.93]I wish I was back in Liverpool [02:20.28] [02:22.37]Liverpool town where I was born [02:25.81] [02:28.93]Where there ain't no trees no scent [02:31.81]Of grease no field's of waving corn [02:34.46] [02:35.55]But there's lots of girls with peroxide [02:37.92] [02:38.79]Curls and the black and tan flows free [02:41.26] [02:42.10]There's six in a bed by the old pier head [02:45.52]And it's Liverpool town for me [02:47.32] [02:50.37]There's every race and colour of face [02:52.67] [02:53.85]There's every kind of name [02:56.21] [02:58.12]But the pigeons on the pier head they [03:01.05]Treat you all the same [03:02.83] [03:04.60]And if you walk up upon Parlament [03:06.91] [03:07.75]Street you'll get faces black and brown [03:10.09] [03:12.06]And I've also seen the orange-green [03:14.05] [03:15.25]In dear old Liverpool town [03:17.08] [03:19.41]I wish I was back in Liverpool [03:22.10] [03:24.13]Liverpool town where I was born [03:26.55] [03:30.91]Where there ain't no trees no scent [03:33.59] [03:34.51]Of grease no fiel's of waving corn [03:36.50] [03:37.49]But there's lots of girls with peroxide [03:39.63] [03:40.17]Curls and the black and tan flows free [03:42.61] [03:44.17]There's six in a bed by the old pier head [03:47.07] [03:47.69]And it's Liverpool town for me