Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Last Shift, artist - Richard Thompson. Album song Industry, in the genre Фолк-рок
Date of issue: 11.05.1997
Record label: Parlophone
Song language: English
Last Shift |
Stow your gear and charge your lamp |
Say goodbye to dark and damp |
DSS will pay your stamp |
Last shift, close her down |
Leave your manhood, leave your pride |
Back there on the mucky side |
Take the cage for one more ride |
Last shift, close her down |
Put the business in the black |
And they’ve stabbed us in the back |
With old school ties and little white lies |
They left our town for scrap |
Golden handshake, sling our hooks |
Now we’re nursemaids, now we’re cooks |
Now our kids steal pension books |
Last shift, close her down |
Now the scrapper boys infest |
And the wrecking balls caress |
Like vermin round a burial ground |
They catch the smell of death |
Old Grimey’s lost its soul |
Fifty million tons of coal |
And we’re beggars on the dole |
Last shift, close her down |
Last shift, close her down |