I Wish I Were Back In Liverpool-The Dubliners

[ti:I Wish I Were Back In Liverpool] [ar:The Dubliners] [al:The Dubliners] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Wish I Were Back In Liverpool - The Dubliners [00:03.25]I wish I was back in Liverpool [00:07.52] [00:09.46]Liverpool town where I was born [00:13.86] [00:16.58]Where there ain't no trees no scent [00:19.83]Of grease no field's of waving corn [00:22.46] [00:23.10]But there's lots of girls with peroxide [00:26.94]Curls and the black and tan flows free [00:29.87]There's six in a bed by the old pier head [00:33.35]And it's Liverpool town for me [00:35.31] [00:38.39]'Tis seven long years since I wandered [00:41.06]Away to sail the wild world o'er [00:47.11] [00:48.81]Me very first trip on an old steam ship [00:52.57]That was bound for Baltimore [00:54.61]I was seven days sick and I just couldn't [00:59.55]Stick that bobbin' up and down [01:01.77] [01:04.50]So I told them "Jack you'd better turn [01:07.71]Back for dear old Liverpool town" [01:09.63] [01:12.31]I wish I was back in Liverpool [01:15.85] [01:17.78]Liverpool town where I was born [01:22.05] [01:24.89]Where there ain't no trees no scent of grease [01:27.97]No field's of waving corn [01:30.18]But there's lots of girls with peroxide curls [01:34.21]And the black and tan flows free [01:36.82]There's six in a bed by the old pier head [01:41.49]And it's Liverpool town for me [01:43.65] [01:47.66]We dug the Mersey tunnel boys [01:50.74]Way back in thirty-three [01:52.49] [01:54.69]Dug an hole in the ground until [01:57.71]We found an hold called Wallasey [02:01.32]Then the foreman cried "Come on [02:03.74]Outside The roof is fallin' down" [02:08.88]While I'm tellin' you Jack we all swum [02:11.31]Back to dear old Liverpool town [02:14.30] [02:16.84]I wish I was back in Liverpool [02:20.90] [02:21.99]Liverpool town where I was born [02:26.20] [02:28.63]Where there ain't no trees no scent [02:31.88]Of grease no field's of waving corn [02:33.98] [02:35.08]But there's lots of girls with peroxide [02:37.48] [02:38.01]Curls and the black and tan flows free [02:40.15] [02:41.38]There's six in a bed by the old pier head [02:45.39]And it's Liverpool town for me [02:47.06] [02:50.49]There's every race and colour of face [02:52.43] [02:54.06]There's every kind of name [02:55.69] [02:57.78]But the pigeons on the pier head they [03:00.33] [03:00.88]Treat you all the same [03:02.25] [03:04.31]And if you walk up upon Parlament [03:06.50]Street you'll get faces black and brown [03:09.09] [03:11.88]And I've also seen the orange-green [03:13.74] [03:14.72]In dear old Liverpool town [03:16.34] [03:19.12]I wish I was back in Liverpool [03:21.82] [03:23.34]Liverpool town where I was born [03:26.59] [03:30.82]Where there ain't no trees no scent [03:33.59]Of grease no fiel's of waving corn [03:36.33] [03:37.23]But there's lots of girls with peroxide [03:39.85]Curls and the black and tan flows free [03:42.58] [03:44.02]There's six in a bed by the old pier head [03:47.59]And it's Liverpool town for me