I Wish I was Back in Liverpool

(Words & Music by Stan Kelly)

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     I wish I was back in Liverpool, Liverpool town where I was born

    Where there ain’t no trees, no scented breeze, no fields of waving corn

    But there’s lots of girls with peroxide curls and the black and tan flows free

    With six in a bed by the old Pier head and it’s Liverpool town for me.

1.  It’s seven long years since I wandered away, to sail the wide world o’er

     Me very first trip in an old tramp ship, that was bound for Baltimore

     I was seven days sick and I just couldn’t stick all that bobbing up and down

     So I told them jack, to turn right back, to dear old Liverpool town.

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2.  We dug the Mersey Tunnel boys way back in thirty-three

     Dug a hole in the ground, until we found, a hole called Wallasey

     The foreman cried, ‘Get on outside, the roof is falling down’

     And I’m telling you Jack, we all swam back to dear old Liverpool town.

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3.  There’s every race and colour of face and every kind of name

     But the pigeons there in Clayton Square treat everyone the same

     And if you walk down Upper Parliament Street, you’ll see faces black and brown

     And I’ve even heard there’s orange and green in dear old Liverpool town.

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