
Date of issue: 08.04.2001
Record label: Park
Song language: English
Hail The Ball |
They’re gathering at Cloffocks |
In the late afternoon |
Testosterone in T shirts |
The game’s beginning soon |
An ancient war-like struggle |
For the Park or harbour wall |
The Uppies and the Downies |
Wage a battle for the ball |
Hail, hail the ball |
Hail the barbarians |
Running along the Harbour Wall |
The ball is up, they’re in the beck |
The scrum is hard and tight |
The ball flies out away they run |
The beat the failing light |
They’re ploughing up the cricket pitch |
And allotments of the town |
Stand back, stand back, bystander |
Or the scrum will run you down |
Laughing, pushing flexing style |
Dark determined eyes |
Thousands crowd the high-ground |
Murmuring asides |
They think the ball is the pack |
In the blood and muck and dirt |
But there are no rules in this game |
It’s stuffed up Millican’s shirt |
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