
Date of issue: 31.12.2012
Song language: English
Sky Hooks And Tartan Paint |
Me first day in the shipyard, the gaffer says to me, |
«I want ye to go to the store lad and get a few things, ye see? |
Now here’s a list, can ye read lad? |
Can ye read it back to me? |
And me and the boys’ll listen while were having wah morning tea.» |
Now reading was me pride when I left school at fourteen, |
There wouldn’t be no problem here, I’d show them I was keen, |
But when I starts to reading, they just couldn’t hold their mirth, |
Hugging themselves and spluttering like they was giving birth. |
«First off a brace of sky hooks and a packet of nail holes neat, |
And then three cans of tartan paint, and that’s me task complete.» |
The gaffer pats me on the head and sends me on me way, |
He says, «Don't come back empty handed lad, or I’ll have to dock yr pay.» |
So I gets to the store all nervous and the quartermaster’s there, |
I pulls the list out of me pocket and I starts to read all square, |
Well I hadn’t barely finished when the store-man's face turns red, |
He gives me such an evil look I thought I’d soon be dead. |
«First off a brace of sky hooks and a packet of nail holes neat, |
And then three cans of tartan paint, and that’s me task complete.» |
The store-man swipes me on the head and sends me on me way, |
With a kick in the arse for me efforts, and such was my first day. |
I gets back home that evening and me mother says to me, |
«How was it son? |
How was your day? |
Sit down and have some tea.» |
I told her of the list I’d read and the trouble I was in, |
I couldn’t go back tomorrow or the gaffer’d have me skinned. |
«First off a brace of sky hooks and a packet of nail holes neat, |
And then three cans of tartan paint, and that’s me task complete.» |
Me mother swipes me on the head and sends me on me way, |
With a kick in the arse for me efforts, and such was my first day. |
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