Тексты песен «Billy Bragg»

Thank you, kindly for thinking of me If I'm not smiling, I'm just thinking Glad and sorry, happy or sad When all is done and spoken You're up or I'm down Can you show me a dream? Can you show me one that's...

He's got the bonhomie of a game show host And his handshake is so limp, it's like meeting a ghost His apologies are tired 'cause he uses them a lot His excuses are so lame if they were horses they'd be shot He lies...

God's footballer hears the voices of angles Above the choir at Molyneaux God's footballer stands on the doorstep And brings the Good News of the Kingdom to come While the crowd sing 'Rock of Ages' The goals bring weekly...

God's footballer hears the voices of angels above the choir at Molyneaux God's footballer stands on the doorstep and brings the good news of the kingdom to come While the crowd sing Rock of Ages The goals bring weekly...

Shirley, it's quite exciting to be sleeping here in this new room Shirley, you're my reason to get out of bed before noon Shirley, you know when we sat out on the fire escape talking Shirley, what did you say about...

Shirley, It's quite exciting to be sleeping here in this new room Shirley, You're my reason to get out of bed before noon Shirley, You know when we sat out on the fire escape talking Shirley, What did you say...

Some say heart is just like a wheel When you bend it, you can't mend it And my love for you is like a sinking ship And my heart is on that ship out in mid ocean They say that death is a tragedy It comes once and...

Help save the youth of America Help save them from themselves Help save the sun-tanned surfer boys And the Californian girls When the lights go out in the rest of the World What do our cousins say They're playing in...

For your sparkling cocky smile I have walked a million miles Begging you to come wed me in the spring Why do you my dear delay, What makes you laugh and turn away? You're a hesitating beauty, nora lee Well I know...

I can see the kitchen light From the road where I park my bike But it's dark there as it's often is these days And the gloomy living room Really needs a dust and broom But I can't brush your memory away Her father was...

Hoodoo voodoo, seven, twenty-one, two Haystacka, hostacka, A B C High poker, low joker, ninety-nine to zero Sidewalk, streetcar, dance a goofy dance Black birdy, blue jay, one, two, three, four Trash sack, jump...

I'm a porter and a night clerk at the old hot rod hotel I clean and scrub the lobby down and thirty one rooms as well I wax and shine their boots and shoes, I brush down their crinkeldy clothes I meet the buses and...

You see a rainbow I see a dark cloud You see your new friends And I see a bad crowd I almost killed you Nearly killed you Almost killed you with my love I'll put a gun up to my head If you treat me this way...

What was that bang? It was the next big thing Exploding over our heads And soon the next generation Will emerge from behind the bike sheds What are we going to offer them? The exact same thing as before But a...

I dreamed I saw Phil Ochs last night Alive as you and me Says I to Phil, "You're ten years dead" "I never died", says he "I never died", says he The music business killed you Phil I ignored the things you said...

I guess I planted some long lonesome seed of a song Way down inside me long ago And now I can't remember when it was But it joined up with the rest of them and grows It's such a little song it don't compare With...

If you want to make the weather Then you have to take the blame If sometimes dark clouds fill the sky And it starts to rain, folks complain And though your head may tell you To run and hide Listen to your heart...

I was born at half past 12, almost one in the morning; I was born at half past one, almost two in the morning. Now my birthday comes again and I don't know how old I am; Half past one or two or three, almost 4 in the...

When one voice rules the nation Just because they're top of the pile Doesn't mean their vision is the clearest The voices of the people Are falling on deaf ears Our politicians all become careerists They must declare...

Walking out together All along the shore Arm in arm beneath the cliffs that tower above us We hear the breakers roar Here we found each other Here we made our home Took the sea, the sky, the sun, the summertime...