Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song What Have We Got? , by - Sting. Release date: 31.12.2012
Song language: English
What Have We Got? |
| Good people give ear to me story, |
| Pay attention, and none of your lip, |
| For I’ve brought you five lads and their daddy, |
| Intending to build ye’s a ship. |
| Wallsend is wor habitation, |
| It’s the place we was all born and bred. |
| And there’s nay finer lads in the nation, |
| And none are more gallantly led. |
| What have we got, but the buzzer in the morning? |
| Aye, and what have we got, but the laying of a keel? |
| And what have we got, but the cranes above us soaring? |
| The commotion and the clamour in the welding of the steel? |
| What have we got, but the mist upon the river? |
| Tell me, what have we got, but the noise inside the hold? |
| Oh, what have we got, but the arse end of the weather? |
| Where we work in horizontal rain, and shiver in the cold. |
| What do ye got? |
| (What do we got?) |
| What do ye got? |
| (What do we got?) |
| You’ve got nowt. |
| We’ve got nowt else. |
| What do ye got? |
| (What do we got?) |
| What do ye got? |
| (What do we got?) |
| You’ve got nowt. |
| We’ve got nowt else. |
| What have ye got, but the singing in the cables? |
| Oh, what have ye got, but the ringing in your ears? |
| Aye, what have ye got, but the telling of the fables? |
| And the memories of the ships, that we’ve been building donkey’s years. |
| What do ye got? |
| (What do we got?) |
| What do ye got? |
| (What do we got?) |
| You’ve got nowt. |
| We’ve got nowt else. |
| What do ye got? |
| (What do we got?) |
| What do ye got? |
| (What do we got?) |
| You’ve got nowt. |
| We’ve got nowt else. |
| Aye, you’ve got to die of something, |
| It’s written in your fate, |
| Ye may as well die of a Tuesday, |
| And woe betide you’re late. |
| What have ye got, all you men what’s fit and able? |
| What have ye got, for the straining in your neck? |
| What have ye got, when you’re laid out on the table? |
| And the snapping of a cable when the rigging hits the deck? |
| What have ye got, but the loyalty of brothers? |
| What have ye got, but this union of the dock? |
| What have ye got, a bacon sandwich from your mother? |
| Not a promise of another with the punching of the clock. |
| What do ye got? |
| (What do we got?) |
| What do ye got? |
| (What do we got?) |
| You’ve got nowt. |
| We’ve got nowt else. |
| What do ye got? |
| (What do we got?) |
| Now, what do ye got? |
| (What do we got?) |
| You’ve got nowt. |
| We’ve got nowt else. |
| What do ye got? |
| (What do we got?) |
| What do ye got? |
| (What do we got?) |
| You’ve got nowt. |
| We’ve got nowt else. |