Shirt Of Blue-Men They Couldn't Hang

[ti:Shirt Of Blue] [ar:Men They Couldn't Hang] [al:The Shooting] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Shirt Of Blue - Men They Couldn't Hang [00:07.04]Hey now Tommy have you got new Shirt [00:10.10]Is it's color a fine bright blue [00:13.70] [00:15.97]Has your mother sent you off to your school [00:18.94]From the street with the pretty view [00:21.51] [00:27.26]And shall we wrestle in the old school yard [00:30.00]Like the other children do [00:33.38] [00:35.64]You can scuff your boots you can tear your hands [00:38.33]And I'll rip that shirt off you [00:42.70] [00:53.70]Hey now Tommy since you moved away [00:56.74]They've taken our town and they've made it new [00:59.84] [01:03.09]Now there stands a chemical plant [01:05.59]Where the cherry orchards grew [01:08.62] [01:10.30]And I married Lucy from the back of our class [01:14.00]Who once wrote letters to you [01:16.48] [01:19.21]We've got kids and we send them to school [01:22.18]From the street with the pretty view [01:25.47] [01:28.05]Oh and your shirt of blue [01:31.70] [01:33.69]Oh and your shirt of blue [01:37.77] [01:54.03]Maybe Tommy we grew up too quick [01:58.34] [01:59.68]From the fields with the flowers strewn [02:04.05] [02:06.36]From a butterfly stick to a baton and a brick [02:11.19] [02:12.24]Changing uniforms far too soon [02:17.21] [02:22.36]Hey now Tommy shall we meet again [02:25.43]In the morning wet with dew [02:28.06] [02:31.03]Meet at the gates of the colliery [02:34.03]You in your shirt of blue [02:38.98] [02:42.25]And shall we wrestle in the muddy patch [02:45.16]Like the other poor men do [02:48.21] [02:50.02]We can scuff our boots we can tear our hands [02:53.52]And I'll rip that shirt off you [02:58.36] [02:59.38]Oh and your shirt of blue [03:02.58] [03:04.81]Oh and your shirt of blue [03:09.22] [03:11.33]Or maybe Tommy we grew up too quick [03:16.12] [03:17.28]From the fields with the flowers strewn [03:21.48] [03:23.72]From a butterfly stick to a baton and a brick [03:28.79] [03:29.78]Changing uniforms far too soon [03:34.67] [03:50.23]Oh and your shirt of blue [03:53.79] [03:56.21]Oh and your shirt of blue [04:00.88] [04:02.48]Oh and your shirt of blue [04:06.64] [04:08.93]Oh and your shirt of blue